A currency trader reacts near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI), and the foreign exchange rate between U.S. dollar and South Korean won, right, at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)2025-04-09T01:09:25Z BANGKOK (AP) Asian shares sank again on Wednesday as the latest set of U.S. tariffs, including a massive 104% levy on Chinese imports, was due to take effect. Japans Nikkei 225 index initially lost nearly 4% and markets in South Korea, New Zealand and Australia also declined.On Tuesday, the S&P 500 dropped 1.6% after wiping out an early gain of 4.1%. That took it nearly 19% below its record set in February. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 0.8%, while the Nasdaq composite lost 2.1%. Uncertainty is still high about what President Donald Trump will do with his trade war. The sharply higher tariffs were scheduled to kick in after midnight Eastern time in the U.S., and investors have no idea what to make of President Donald Trumps trade war. The retreat overnight and into early Wednesday in Asia followed rallies for stocks globally earlier in the day, with indexes up 6% in Tokyo, 2.5% in Paris and 1.6% in Shanghai. The Nikkei 225 in Tokyo fell more than 3.9% before leveling off. About an hour after the market opened it was down 3.5% at 31,847.40. South Koreas Kospi lost 1% to 2,315.27, while the S&P/ASX 200 in Australia declined 2% to 7,359.30. Shares in New Zealand also fell. Analysts have been warning to expect more swings up and down for financial markets given the uncertainty over how long Trump will keep the stiff tariffs on imports, which will raise prices for U.S. shoppers and slow the economy. If they last a long time, economists and investors expect them to cause a recession. If Trump lowers them through negotiations relatively quickly, the worst-case scenario might be avoided. Hope still remains on Wall Street that negotiations may be possible, which helped drive the mornings rally. Trump said Tuesday that a conversation with South Koreas acting president helped them reach the confines and probability of a great DEAL for both countries. On Tuesday, Japanese stocks led global markets higher after the countrys prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, appointed his trade negotiator for talks with the United States following a conversation with Trump. China said it will fight to the end and warned of countermeasures after Trump threatened on Monday to raise his tariffs even further on the worlds second-largest economy.White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday that Trumps threats of even higher tariffs on China will become reality after midnight, when imports from China will be taxed at a stunning 104% rate. That would coincide with Trumps latest set of broad tariffs, which are scheduled to kick in at 12:01 a.m. And Trump has made clear that he does not intend to have any exemptions or exclusions, according to the top U.S. trade negotiator, Jamieson Greer.The U.S. trade representative also said in testimony before a Senate committee that roughly 50 countries have already been in contact, and hes told them: If you have a better idea to achieve reciprocity and to get our trade deficit down, we want to talk with you, we want to negotiate with you. Trumps trade war is an attack on the globalization thats shaped the worlds economy and helped bring down prices for products on store shelves but also caused manufacturing jobs to leave for other countries. Trump has said he wants to narrow trade deficits, which measure how much more the United States imports from other countries than it sends to them as exports.___AP Business Writers Stan Choe and Matt Ott contributed. ELAINE KURTENBACH Based in Bangkok, Kurtenbach is the APs business editor for Asia, helping to improve and expand our coverage of regional economies, climate change and the transition toward carbon-free energy. She has been covering economic, social, environmental and political trends in China, Japan and Southeast Asia throughout her career. twitter mailto

President Donald Trump speaks during an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)2025-04-09T04:07:11Z WASHINGTON (AP) By declaring a trade war on the rest of the world, President Donald Trump has panicked global financial markets, raised the risk of a recession and broken the political and economic alliances that made much of the world stable for business after World War II.Trumps latest round of tariffs went into full effect at midnight Wednesday, with higher import tax rates on dozens of countries and territories taking hold.Economists are puzzled to see Trump trying to overhaul the existing economic order and doing it so soon after inheriting the strongest economy in the world. Many of the trading partners he accuses of ripping off U.S. businesses and workers were already floundering.There is a deep irony in Trump claiming unfair treatment of the American economy at a time when it was growing robustly while every other major economy had stalled or was losing growth momentum, said Eswar Prasad, professor of trade policy at Cornell University. In an even greater irony, the Trump tariffs are likely to end Americas remarkable run of success and crash the economy, job growth and financial markets. Trump and his trade advisers insist that the rules governing global commerce put the United States at a distinct disadvantage. But mainstream economists whose views Trump and his advisers disdain say the president has a warped idea of world trade, especially a preoccupation with trade deficits, which they say do nothing to impede growth. The administration accuses other countries of erecting unfair trade barriers to keep out American exports and using underhanded tactics to promote their own. In Trumps telling, his tariffs are a long-overdue reckoning: The U.S. is the victim of an economic mugging by Europe, China, Mexico, Japan and even Canada. Its true that some countries charge higher taxes on imports than the United States does. Some manipulate their currencies lower to ensure that their goods are price-competitive in international markets. Some governments lavish their industries with subsidies to give them an edge. However, the United States is still the second-largest exporter in the world, after China. The U.S. exported $3.1 trillion of goods and services in 2023, far ahead of third-place Germany at $2 trillion.The fear that Trumps remedies are deadlier than the maladies hes trying to cure has sent investors fleeing American stocks. Since Trump announced sweeping import taxes on April 2, the S&P 500 has cratered 12%. Despite high trade deficits, the US economy is strongTrump and his advisers point to Americas lopsided trade numbers year after year of huge deficits as proof of foreigners perfidy. Hes seeking to restore justice and millions of long-gone U.S. factory jobs by taxing imports at rates not seen in America since the days of the horse and buggy.Theyve taken so much of our wealth away from us, the president declared last week at a White House Rose Garden ceremony to celebrate the tariffs announcement. Were not going to let that happen. We truly can be very wealthy. We can be so much wealthier than any country.But the U.S. is already the wealthiest major economy in the world. And the International Monetary Fund in January forecast that the United States would outgrow every other major advanced economy this year.China and India did grow faster than the United States over the past decade, but their living standards still dont come close to those in the U.S.Manufacturing in the U.S. has been fading for decades. There is widespread agreement that many American manufacturers couldnt compete with an influx of cheap imports after China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001. Factories closed, workers were laid off and heartland communities withered.Four years later, nearly 3 million manufacturing jobs had been lost, though robots and other forms of automation probably did at least as much to reduce factory jobs as the China shock. Tariffs are Trumps all-purpose weaponTo turn around this long decline, Trump has repeatedly unsheathed the tariffs that are his weapon of choice. Since returning to the White House in January, hes plastered 25% taxes on foreign cars, steel and aluminum. Hes hit Chinese imports with 20% levies, on top of hefty tariffs he imposed on China during his first term.On Wednesday, he blasted his big bazooka: 10% baseline tariffs on just about everybody and reciprocal tariffs on everyone else that the Trump team identified as bad actors, including tiny Lesotho (a 50% import tax) and China (34% before adding earlier levies).Trump views tariffs as an all-purpose economic fix that will protect American industries, encourage companies to open factories in America, raise money for the U.S. Treasury and give him leverage to bend other countries to his will, even on issues that have nothing to do with trade, such as drug trafficking and immigration. The president also sees a smoking gun: The United States has bought more from other countries than it has sold them every year for the past half-century. In 2024, the U.S. trade deficit in goods and services came to a whopping $918 billion, the second-highest amount on record.Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro calls Americas trade deficits the sum of all cheating by other countries.However, economists say trade deficits arent a sign of national weakness. The U.S. economy has nearly quadrupled in size, adjusted for inflation, during that half-century of trade deficits.There is no reason to think that a bigger trade deficit means lower growth, said former IMF chief economist Maurice Obstfeld, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics and an economist at the University of California, Berkeley. In fact, the opposite is closer to the truth in many countries.A trade deficit, Obstfeld said, does not mean a country is losing through trade or being ripped off.Spend a lot, save a little and see trade deficits swellThe faster the U.S. economy grows, in fact, the more imports Americans tend to buy and the wider the trade deficit tends to get. The U.S. trade deficit the gap between what it sells and what it buys from foreign countries hit a record $945 billion in 2022 as the American economy roared back from COVID-19 lockdowns. Trade deficits typically fall sharply in recessions.Nor are trade deficits primarily inflicted on America by other countries unfair trading practices. To economists, theyre a homegrown product, the result of Americans propensity to save little and consume more than they produce.American shoppers famous appetite for spending more than the country makes means that a chunk of the spending is used for imports. If the United States boosted its saving for example, by reducing its budget deficits then that would reduce its trade deficit as well, economists say.Its not like the rest of the world has been ripping us off for decades, said Jay Bryson, chief economist at Wells Fargo. Its because we dont save enough.The flip side of Americas low savings and big trade deficits is a steady inflow of foreign investment as other countries sink their export earnings into the United States. Direct foreign investment into the U.S. came to $349 billion in 2023, the World Bank reported, nearly double No. 2 Singapores inflows.The only scenario in which tariffs reduce the U.S. deficit is if they cause investment in the U.S. to crash, said Barry Eichengreen, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley. That would be a disaster.Harvard University economist Dani Rodrik said a well-designed industrial policy supported by select tariffs might have fostered increased investment and capacity in manufacturing.Instead, Rodrik said, Trumps actions just throw up a lot of uncertainty and alienate Americas best allies, making for a terrible policy all in all.___AP Economics Writer Christopher Rugaber contributed to this report.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., left, talks with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer ahead of a hearing at the Senate Finance Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)2025-04-09T04:15:10Z WASHINGTON (AP) Manufacturers struggling to make long-term plans. Farmers facing retaliation from Chinese buyers. U.S. households burdened with higher prices. Republican senators are confronting the Trump administration with those worries and many more as they fret about the economic impact of the presidents sweeping tariff strategy that went into effect Wednesday.In a Senate hearing and interviews with reporters this week, Republican skepticism of President Donald Trumps policies ran unusually high. While GOP lawmakers made sure to direct their concern at Trumps aides and advisers particularly U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, who appeared before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday it still amounted to a rare Republican break from a president they have otherwise championed. Lawmakers had reason to worry: the stock market has been in a volatile tumble for days and economists are warning that the plans could lead to a recession. Whose throat do I get to choke if this proves to be wrong? Republican Sen. Thom Tillis told Greer as he pressed for an answer on which Trump aide to hold accountable if there is an economic downturn. Tillis frustration was aimed at the across-the-board tariff strategy that could potentially hamstring U.S. manufacturers who are currently dependent on materials like aluminum and steel from China. His home state of North Carolina, where he is up for reelection next year, has attracted thousands of foreign firms looking to invest in the states manufacturing industries. Ever wary of crossing Trump, Republicans engaged in a delicate two-step of criticizing the rollout of the tariffs then shifting to praise for the presidents economic vision. In the afternoon, Tillis in a Senate floor speech said that the president is right in challenging other nations who have for decades abused their relationship with the United States, yet went on to question who in the White House was thinking through the long-term economic effects of the sweeping tariffs. Tillis even allowed that Trumps trade strategy could still turn out to be effective, but said there is a short window to show that it is worth the higher prices and layoffs that will burden workers.For his part, Greer emphasized to the committee that the U.S. was engaged in negotiations with other countries but that the trade deficit has been decades in the making, and its not going to be solved overnight.Republican leaders in Congress, as well as a sizeable chunk of lawmakers, have emphasized that Trump needs time to implement his strategy. Theyve mostly rejected the idea of putting a check on Trumps tariff power, but it is clear that anxiety is growing among rank-and-file Republicans about whats ahead.Sen. James Lankford, an Oklahoma Republican, said there is a company in his state that had spent millions of dollars moving its parts production from China to Vietnam. But now that Vietnam is facing steep tariffs, the business is unable to move forward with negotiating prices with retailers. Lankford pressed Greer for a timeline for negotiations, but the trade representative responded, We dont have any particular timeline. The outcome is more important than setting something artificially for us.Trade agreements between countries typically take months or even years to work out and often require the parties to navigate through a host of legal, economic and business issues. Still, Republicans said they were encouraged by the indications that Trump is entering into negotiations with other nations.Sen. Steve Daines, a Montana Republican, said at the committee hearing that he was very encouraged by news of trade negotiations and attributed a momentary upward tick in the stock market to hope that these tariffs are a means and not solely an end.He told Greer, Who pays these high tariffs? It will be the consumer. Im worried about the inflationary effect. Im worried if there is a trade war that were going to have markets shutting down for American farmers, ranchers and manufacturers. Other GOP lawmakers contended that the pain was worth bearing. Republican Rep. Ralph Norman of South Carolina, a member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, said the president is on the right track.Its pain, but its going to be, he said. The president will make the right call. Hes doing the right thing.Still, traditional Republicans were looking for ways to push back on Trumps tariff plan. Sen. Chuck Grassley, a senior Republican, has introduced a bipartisan bill to give Congress the power to review and approve of new tariffs, and Republican members in the House were also working to gain support for a similar bill. Such legislation would allow Congress to claw back some of its constitutional power over tariff policy, which has been almost completely handed over to the president in recent decades through legislation. But the White House has already indicated that Trump would veto the bill, and both Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., have said they are not interested in bringing it up for a vote.Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a Republican closely aligned with Trump, said on social media that the bill was a bad idea because Congress moves at the pace of a tortoise running a race.The reason why Congress gave this authority to the president to begin with is because the ability to pivot, he added.But the presidents unclear messaging has also left lawmakers only guessing as they try to decipher which advisers and aides hold sway in the White House. Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, said that as hes received calls from the business community in his state, hes had no answers for them besides telling them the prospects for the economy are uncertain. The communication from the presidents aides has often been conflicting, Kennedy said even as he voiced support for Trumps long-term goals.Kennedy told reporters, I dont think theres any way to double or triple your tariffs on the world when youre the wealthiest country in all of human history without being somewhat shambolic. STEPHEN GROVES Groves covers Congress for The Associated Press. twitter mailto

President Donald Trump speaks during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)2025-04-09T17:26:50Z WASHINGTON (AP) A federal appeals court cleared the way Wednesday for President Donald Trumps administration to fire thousands of probationary workers, halting a judges order requiring them to be reinstated.A split panel for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the government will probably win by showing the mass firings must be appealed through a separate employment process rather than fought out in federal court. The decision in a case filed by nearly two dozen states in Maryland comes a day after the Supreme Court blocked a similar order from a judge in California. The Republican administration has already reinstated some 15,000 workers to full duty or paid leave, according to court documents. The states could seek further court review as the lawsuit continues to play out. LINDSAY WHITEHURST Whitehurst covers the Supreme Court, legal affairs and criminal justice for The Associated Press in Washington, D.C. Past stops include Salt Lake City, New Mexico and Indiana. twitter mailto

Jared Bossly walks past feed on his ranch in Mansfield, S.D., on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in one of the counties that a proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline would cut through. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri)2025-04-09T12:10:50Z MANSFIELD, S.D. (AP) Jared Bossly was planting soybeans one spring night in 2023 on his 2,000-acre farm in South Dakota when he spotted a sheriffs vehicle parked at the corner of his property. He had a hunch it wasnt a social visit.Im like, Well, I doubt hes just being a friendly neighbor, giving a guy a beer at eight oclock at night, said Bossly, 43.He was right. The sheriffs deputy served him court papers. Summit Carbon Solutions, the company behind a massive proposed carbon pipeline, was suing Bossly to use his land for the project through eminent domain, which is the taking of private property with compensation to the owner.He gives me a stack of papers about like this, Bossly said, stretching his hands several inches. They started the process of suing us to take our land.Bossly is one of many landowners who were sued by Summit Carbon Solutions as it unleashed a barrage of eminent domain legal actions in South Dakota to obtain land for the nearly $9 billion pipeline spanning five Midwest states. Lee Enterprises and The Associated Press reviewed hundreds of cases, revealing the great lengths the pipeline operator went to get the project built, only to be stymied in South Dakota by a groundswell of opposition from local farmers and landowners. The legal salvo generated so much outrage that South Dakotas governor signed a bill into law in early March that bans the use of eminent domain for building carbon dioxide pipelines, putting the future of the project in doubt. The review found that Summit brought 232 lawsuits against landowners across South Dakota, North Dakota and Iowa including lawsuits seeking access to property for surveys. All 156 of the eminent domain actions were brought in South Dakota. Over the course of two days in late April 2023, the company filed 83 eminent domain lawsuits across the state. Summit spokesperson Sabrina Zenor said the companys priority is voluntary agreements and that the vast majority of easements have been and continue to be secured voluntarily.Condemnation is a legal tool available under the law, but its not our preferred approach, Zenor said. The numbers reflect thatweve reached agreements with thousands of landowners without litigation.The pipeline would span 2,500 miles (4,023-kilometers) across the five states and connect to 57 ethanol plants. The carbon dioxide produced by these plants would be captured and shuttled through the pipeline and ultimately stored underground in North Dakota, reducing carbon emissions and allowing the ethanol producers to market their fuel as less carbon intensive. The project would also allow ethanol producers and Summit to tap into federal tax credits. Summit dispatched representatives to state legislatures, county commissions and regulatory boards to make what seemed like an easy sell in a region where the corn and ethanol industry typically has broad support. But Summits legal actions and encounters with farmers provoked passionate opposition in South Dakota. Some said their first encounter with Summit was looking out the window and spotting surveyors on their land, and that company representatives were quick to threaten litigation.Landowners interviewed by Lee and AP described a range of aggressive financial offers made by Summit during the negotiations. One farmer declined an initial $80,000 offer for a 36-acre easement, and that offer grew to $350,000, which he also refused. Another said he turned down an offer north of $40,000. Jared Bossly speaks about his experiences with Summit Carbon Solutions employees on his ranch in Mansfield, S.D., March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) Jared Bossly speaks about his experiences with Summit Carbon Solutions employees on his ranch in Mansfield, S.D., March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Bossly, like some other landowners, battled with Summit in court for months to keep the company from surveying his farm in Brown County, a rural farming stretch of northeastern South Dakota. As Bossly tells it, he found out that Summits surveyors had shown up on his property in May 2023 after his wife, home recovering from gallbladder surgery, called him claiming that there were strangers inside the house. (In court filings, Summits surveyors said they knocked several times before walking to a different building.) Bossly eventually turned his tractor around for the slow, 10-mile drive home from a neighbors farm where he had been planting alfalfa.The company accused him of threatening to kill the surveyors over the phone that day. That landed him in court in front of a judge, who had already ordered landowners not to interfere with Summits surveys. But the audience in the courtroom gallery underscored the larger anti-pipeline sentiment brewing in South Dakota: It was packed with farmers rallying in Bosslys defense. Bossly denies that he made the death threat. The backlash ultimately had major political consequences in the state. In last years primary election, a number of incumbent lawmakers were ousted by candidates opposed to the project.It created an odd political dynamic in the region: Farmers in some of the reddest counties in America joining forces with environmentalists to block a pipeline that was designed to cater to a bedrock Republican constituency Midwest corn farmers. Bossly proudly hangs a Donald Trump-JD Vance campaign banner from the ceiling of his shop.They did this all to themselves, Brian Jorde, an attorney representing landowners, said of Summit. Their legal plan was, We will force them into submission because the lawsuits will break them. A sign depicting a snake with the caption Another Summit Solutions Employee Trespassing hangs on Jared Bosslys garage on his ranch in Mansfield, S.D., March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) A sign depicting a snake with the caption Another Summit Solutions Employee Trespassing hangs on Jared Bosslys garage on his ranch in Mansfield, S.D., March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Pipeline backed by the ethanol industry Summits pipeline, first proposed in 2021, is viewed by the Midwest ethanol industry as a potential economic boon.Nearly 40% of the nations corn crop is brewed into ethanol, which is blended into most gasoline sold in the U.S. With the rise of electric vehicles and less of the fuel additive powering cars, some Midwest farmers and the ethanol industry see passenger jet fuel as a potentially huge new market for ethanol. But under current rules, the process for turning ethanol into aviation fuel would need to emit less carbon dioxide to qualify for tax breaks intended to reduce greenhouse gases. Supporters see carbon capture projects such as Summits pipeline as a way to fight climate change and to help the ethanol industry. Carbon capture involves separating carbon dioxide from the emissions of industrial facilities, such as ethanol plants, and pumping it underground where it is stored so it doesnt contribute to climate change.Carbon capture isnt without critics. Some environmentalists question its effectiveness at large scale and say it allows the fossil fuels industry to continue unchanged.Then theres the Midwest farmers who oppose the project, questioning whether the pipeline would be safe in the event of a rupture and saying Summit trampled over their property rights. Leroy Braun looks over maps of a proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline which he said had covered the table in his farm office for months in Spink County, S.D., March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) Leroy Braun looks over maps of a proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline which he said had covered the table in his farm office for months in Spink County, S.D., March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Taking landowners to courtSome South Dakota landowners described troubling moments with Summits representatives. LeRoy Braun, a 69-year-old fifth-generation farmer in Spink County, said that land acquisition people working for Summit threatened to sue him during a March 2023 visit at his property after he refused to sign an easement agreement.Just as they were leaving, they said, Well, if you dont sign, were going to file eminent domain on you and youre going to get nothing compared to what were offering you, Braun said. He said his neighbors described similar interactions.The last time Summits representatives stopped by his property in late April 2023, they indicated that they wanted to continue a dialogue, Braun said. But a few hours after they left, a sheriffs deputy served him with condemnation court papers. I just thought, Well, these are the most arrogant, bullying type of people Ive ever dealt with, Braun said.In response to Brauns claim that he was threatened with litigation, Summit spokesperson Zenor said that they dont condone threats or coercion and the company cant confirm the exact wording of the interaction. She added that the timing of the eminent domain lawsuit was not a retaliatory act.Other landowners alleged that Summit had private armed security guards present during surveys. Craig Schaunaman, a farmer in Brown County and a former South Dakota legislator, said that during Summits survey of his land in May 2023, one of two on-site security guards was carrying a holstered pistol. I thought it was uncalled for, Schaunaman said.Zenor said that Schaunamans account is not consistent with our policies or our understanding of what occurred. She added that current policy does not include armed security.Such views arent uniform among South Dakota farmers. Walt Bones, a fourth-generation farmer in Minnehaha County and a former state secretary of agriculture, strongly supports the project for its potential economic benefits and said that his interactions with Summits representatives, who were interested in his land, were always respectful. South Dakotans who oppose the project were dug-in from the start and spread lies and overblown safety concerns about the pipeline, Bones said.When Summit started filing the condemnation lawsuits in April 2023, many South Dakota landowners, such as Bossly, werent surprised. What Bossly didnt expect was how his run-ins with Summit would galvanize opposition.After the threat allegations were detailed in court documents, Bosslys name was everywhere on television news and across social media. The company wanted a judge to hold him in contempt. During a May 2023 hearing, the judge declined to do so, but said Bossly must not come within 100 yards of Summits surveyors, according to a transcript of the hearing.So Bossly largely stayed confined to the area of his workshop after Summits surveyors hauled large machinery to his South Dakota farmstead on June 20, 2023. Sheriffs deputies were also present. The surveyors spent hours working on his farm. Photos and videos of the incident were posted online and circulated on social media.That day really kicked our opposition movement into gear because thats when we really got support from all over the state, said Ed Fischbach, a farmer in Spink County who helped organize the projects opponents. Even people that this pipeline doesnt even affect were so appalled by what this company was doing that day. Jared Bossly speaks about his experiences with Summit Carbon Solutions employees on his ranch in Mansfield, S.D., March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) Jared Bossly speaks about his experiences with Summit Carbon Solutions employees on his ranch in Mansfield, S.D., March 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More As for Bossly, life was different. A farmer who grows alfalfa, rye and other crops, Bossly became a standard bearer for the opposition to Summits pipeline. He was doing media interviews and speaking at public meetings about the project. Bossly got a standing ovation after speaking at a conference of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association a group whose website states that a sheriffs law enforcement power in a county is greater than that of any other official in Las Vegas in 2024.I didnt even know what Zoom was, Bossly said. And now, like, thats two or three nights a week where Im on Zoom with different people across the state or the nation.Summit kept filing eminent domain lawsuits in South Dakota until late August 2023. In seven cases, landowners signed easements after getting sued in condemnation, court records show. But after the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission rejected Summits permit application in September 2023, Summit paused or dismissed the legal actions, Zenor said. A wagon covered in signs protesting the installation of a Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline stands on a farm in Lake County, S.D., on Monday, March 10, 2025, in one of the counties that the pipeline would cut through. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) A wagon covered in signs protesting the installation of a Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline stands on a farm in Lake County, S.D., on Monday, March 10, 2025, in one of the counties that the pipeline would cut through. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Political falloutBy the end of 2024, Summit had secured approval for routes in Iowa and North Dakota, a leg in Minnesota and the underground storage. In Iowa, the commissioners who approved Summits route were appointed by Gov. Kim Reynolds, a Republican with strong backing from the states farming organizations. Although many Iowa landowners opposed the project, powerful groups such as the Iowa Corn Growers Association supported the proposal because of its promise to open new markets for corn-based ethanol. Summit was founded by Bruce Rastetter, a major Iowa donor to Republican political candidates.But Summit faced hurdles in South Dakota, where it still lacked a permit and the state Supreme Court ruled in August that the company had not yet proved that it qualified for eminent domain power. In the November election, South Dakota voters rejected regulations that opponents said would deny local control over such projects and consolidate authority with state regulators. Supporters framed the regulations as a landowner bill of rights. And the composition of the South Dakota Legislature had changed significantly after the 2024 primary, when voters elected new lawmakers who opposed Summits pipeline and its use of eminent domain, said Jim Mehlhaff, the Republican majority leader in the South Dakota Senate and a supporter of the pipeline. Lawmakers also were pressured by Summits vocal opponents to vote for the new eminent domain law, he said.Mehlhaff said that the new law sends a signal that South Dakota is not business friendly.The legislature, you know, at the behest of what I would call the shrill minority, will cut your legs out, he added.The federal governments approach to climate change also has changed dramatically since the pipeline was proposed. While former Democratic President Joe Biden increased tax incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to encourage carbon capture to slow climate change, Republican President Donald Trump has emphasized the need for more oil and gas drilling and coal mining. Zion Lutheran Church stands in Lake County, S.D., March 10, 2025, in one of the counties that a proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline would cut through. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) Zion Lutheran Church stands in Lake County, S.D., March 10, 2025, in one of the counties that a proposed Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline would cut through. (AP Photo/Nicole Neri) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Its unclear how Summit will proceed in South Dakota. The company asked state regulators to suspend its permit application timeline. Zenor said the company is focused on advancing the project in states that support investment and innovation but added that Summit continues to believe there is a path forward in South Dakota.But even some supporters of Summit say the company didnt do itself any favors in South Dakota.Did they get off to a bad start? Did they soil their sheets? No question, absolutely, Bones said. I mean, I wouldnt argue that a bit. Dotted Line with Center Square ___Kelety reported from Phoenix. AP writer Scott McFetridge in Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.___This story is a collaboration between Lee Enterprises and The Associated Press.

Subscribe Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. Success Great! Check your inbox and click the link. Error Please enter a valid email address. A powerful Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) database, parts of which have been seen by 404 Media, allows the federal government to search for and filter people by hundreds of different, highly specific categories. Surveillance experts say the database is a tool that could possibly be helping ICE identify, detain, and deport people who are suspected of relatively minor infractions or who fit certain characteristics, but said the fact that we dont necessarily know the exact mechanisms by which people are being identified and detained is a major problem.The database, called Investigative Case Management (ICM), serves as the core law enforcement case management tool for ICE Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), according to a 2021 privacy impact assessment for the tool.404 Media saw a recent version of the database, which allows filtering according to hundreds of different categories, which include things like resident status and entry status (refugee, border crossing card, nonimmigrant alien refused admission, temporary protective status alien, nonimmigrant alien transiting without visa, undocumented alien,); unique physical characteristics (e.g. scars, marks, tattoos); criminal affiliation; location data; license plate reader data; country of origin; hair and eye color; race; social security number; birthplace; place of employment; drivers license status; bankruptcy filings, and hundreds more. A source familiar with the database told 404 Media that it is made up of tables upon tables of data and that it can build reports that show, for example, people who are on a specific type of visa who came into the country at a specific port of entry, who came from a specific country, and who have a specific hair color (or any number of hundreds of data points).ICM was created by Palantir, the powerful and controversial surveillance and data management company. In 2022, Palantir signed a $95.9 million, five-year contract to work on ICM.ICE agents can set up a Person Lookout Query that sends email notifications if a person suddenly triggers the parameters of a search query. 404 Media has seen parts of the infrastructure of this database, which shows the characteristics that can be searched for, as well as several example reports that can be generated by it.A 2016 privacy impact assessment filed by DHS about the database says that ICM connects to other DHS and federal databases, including SEVIS, which are records about all people who are admitted to the United States on a student visa; another search tool called FALCON; real-time maps associated with ICEs location tracking tools; limited location data from license plate reader cameras operated by ICE, as well as information from other federal agencies. The Intercept previously reported those agencies include the DEA, the FBI, the ATF, and the CIA.

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Britain's King Charles III, center, flanked by Ignazio LaRussa, President of the Italian Senate, left, and Lorenzo Fontana, President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, addresses the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Mauro Scrobogna/LaPresse via AP)2025-04-09T17:04:32Z ROME (AP) Pope Francis and King Charles III met privately Wednesday at the Vatican during the kings four-day state visit to Italy, the Vatican announced.It was the first announced meeting since the popes return to the Vatican after five weeks in the hospital for life-threatening double pneumonia. Francis had planned to have an audience with Charles, but that was officially postponed due to the popes health.The pope has been convalescing at the Vatican since March 23, and appeared to the faithful in St. Peters Square on Sunday.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. APs earlier story follows below.ROME (AP) King Charles III stressed the need for close ties between Italy and the UK in a historic speech in the Italian parliament on Wednesday, calling for unity in defense of common values at a time of war in Europe.Charles, the first British monarch and fourth foreign leader to address a joint session of the Italian parliament, highlighted the long history between the UK and Italy and their shared culture, going back to the ancient Romans. Our younger generations can see in the news every day on their smartphones and tablets that peace is never to be taken for granted, Charles said. The British king was on the third day of his visit to Italy, seen as part of an ongoing effort by London to strengthen ties with its European allies amid global turbulences and rising instability. Our countries have both stood by Ukraine in her hour of need and welcomed many thousands of Ukrainians requiring shelter, he said in his speech, warning that images of wars were now reverberating again across the continent.Charles added that Italian and British armed forces stand side by side as part of the NATO alliance, noting the two countries joint plans to develop with Japan a new fighter jet.It will generate thousands of jobs in our countries and speaks volumes about the trust we place in each other, he said. During the Italian trip, King Charles and Queen Camilla also marked their 20th wedding anniversary, which will be further celebrated Wednesday evening at a state dinner hosted by President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale palace.Earlier on Wednesday, Charles met Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni at Romes Villa Doria Pamphili, enjoying a walk in the 17th Century palaces gardens.In a few weeks, he will mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe together with Mattarella.Climate change warnings Charles also spoke passionately in his address about threats facing the planet, recalling another speech he gave in Italy 16 years ago and how the warnings he made at the time about the urgency of the climate challenge were depressingly being borne out by events.He noted extreme storms normally seen once in a generation are now an issue every year, and countless precious plant and animal species face extinction in our lifetimes.Sections of the speech were delivered in Italian, with the King prompting the applause of Italian lawmakers when he noted: And by the way, I hope Im not ruining Dantes language so much that Im no never invited to Italy again.Charles was on his first trip abroad this year after being taken to hospital over side effects related to his ongoing cancer treatment. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

The Marathon Garyville Oil Refinery in Reserve, La., is seen Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)2025-04-09T16:27:05Z WASHINGTON (AP) Oil prices slumped to a four-year low Wednesday in anticipation of slowing economic growth and reduced energy demand, both casualties of a trade war that began after President Donald Trump ordered widespread tariffs against the imports of U.S. trading partners. U.S. benchmark crude fell 4.3% to $56.98 per barrel in midday trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Prices had fallen further earlier in the day to levels not seen since February 2021, the depth of the COVID-19 pandemic. Energy prices have fallen remarkably fast, with the cost of a barrel of oil sliding by more than $20 since the start of the year. At this time last year, a barrel of U.S. crude cost $85, or 34% more than it does now. A barrel was going for around $71 at the beginning of April, before tariffs were launched.Brent crude, the European standard, fell $2.36 to $60.46 per barrel. The most recent swoon in energy prices arrived when Trumps latest round of tariffs kicked in after midnight, including a 104% tax on goods coming from China. The worlds second-largest economy quickly retaliated, with Beijing saying it would raise tariffs on imported U.S. goods to 84% on Thursday. European Union member states followed suit, issuing retaliatory tariffs on $23 billion in goods. For now, the targeted items are a tiny fraction of the 1.6 trillion euros ($1.8 trillion) in U.S.-EU annual trade. Rapidly falling oil prices signal pessimism about economic growth and can be a harbinger of a recession as manufacturers cut production, businesses cut travel costs and families rethink vacation plans. Delta Air Lines. which had anticipated a record year, pulled its financial forecasts for 2025 on Wednesday as the trade war scrambles expectations for business and household spending and depresses bookings across the travel sector. With broad economic uncertainty around global trade, growth has largely stalled, said Delta CEO Ed Bastian.Shares of major U.S. oil companies fell as well Wednesday. We are going into a recession, Neil Dutta of Renaissance Macro Research wrote in a note to clients. I dont think it is especially controversial to say so.

We start this week with Joseph's story revealing how the FBI secretly ran a massive money laundering ring to catch drug traffickers and hackers. After the break, we run through a bunch of tariff stories and how it's going to impact everything from the Nintendo Switch to the iPhone. In the subscribers-only section, Jason explains why he found the new book on Facebook particularly illuminating.Listen to the weekly podcast onApple Podcasts,Spotify, orYouTube. Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power our journalism.If you become a paid subscriber, check your inbox for an email from our podcast host Transistor for a link to the subscribers-only version! You can also add that subscribers feed to your podcast app of choice and never miss an episode that way. The email should also contain the subscribers-only unlisted YouTube link for the extended video version too. It will also be in the show notes in your podcast player. Elon Musk Was a Prolific Money Launderer for Hackers and Drug Traffickers. It Was Secretly the FBIBig Tech Backed Trump for Acceleration. They Got a Decel President Instead'Sea of Idiocy:' Economists Say Trump Tariffs Will Raise Price of Switch 2 and Everything ElseA 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure FantasyFramework Stops Selling Some of Its Laptops in the U.S. Due to Tariffs'Careless People' Is the Book About Facebook I've Wanted for a Decade

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01083-2Communities of researchers worldwide are taking on the toxic research cultures that drive poor psychological health among academics.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00966-8The academic impact of early morning lectures, alcohols effects on sleep and other highlights from sleep studies.

President Donald Trump speaks at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Pool via AP)2025-04-09T15:57:12Z WASHINGTON (AP) The global economy appeared to be in open rebellion against President Donald Trumps tariffs as they took effect Wednesday. Business executives are warning of a potential recession caused by his policies, some of the top U.S. trading partners are retaliating with their own import taxes and the stock market is quivering after days of decline. Trumps tariffs kicked in shortly after midnight, including 104% on products from China, 20% on the European Union, 24% on Japan and 25% on South Korea. Administration officials have tried to reassure voters, Republican lawmakers and CEOs that the rates are negotiable, but by their own admission that process could take months.When a downturn appears on the horizon, investors typically crowd into U.S. Treasury notes as a safe haven, viewing the federal government as a source of stability. Not this time. Government bond prices are down, pushing up the interest rate on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note to 4.45% in a sign that the world is increasingly leery of Trumps moves. The market is highly nervous about foreign investors stepping away from the US Treasury debt, which is sending yields sharply higher, said Gennadiy Goldberg, head of U.S. rates strategy at TD Securities. Markets more broadly, not just the Treasury market, are looking for signs that a trade de-escalation is coming. Absent any de-escalation, its going to be difficult for markets to see stabilize. The Republican president was publicly defiant as the stock market recovered slightly, then sold off and then bounce back in morning trading. The S&P 500 stock index has fallen more than 18% since Feb. 18 as Trumps tariff plans crystallized. THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! he posted on Truth Social, his social media site. BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well. The USA will be bigger and better than ever before! Presidents often receive undue credit or blame for the state of the U.S. economy as their time in the White House is subject to financial and geopolitical forces beyond their direct control. But by unilaterally imposing tariffs, Trump is exerting extraordinary influence over the flow of commerce, creating political risks that could prove difficult to avoid if his plans do not pan out. After early success in exerting control over American institutions, from law firms and universities to federal agencies and cultural organizations, he is now facing off with global markets that will not simply bend to his will.JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon said there would probably be a recession, although he also deferred to his economists.I do think fixing these tariff issues and trade issues would be a good thing to do, he said in an interview with Fox Business Networks Mornings with Maria.On CNBC, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian said the administration was being less strategic than it was during Trumps first term. His company had in January projected it would have its best financial year in history, only to scrap its expectations for 2025 due to the economic uncertainty. Trying to do it all at the same time has created chaos in terms of being able to make plans, he said, noting that demand for air travel has weakened.Economic forecasters say Trumps return to the White House has had a series of negative and cascading impacts that could put the country into a downturn.Simultaneous shocks to consumer sentiment, corporate confidence, trade, financial markets as well as to prices, new orders and the labor market will tip the economy into recession in the current quarter, said Joe Brusuelas, chief economist at the consultancy RSM.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has previously said it could take months to strike deals with countries on tariff rates, and the administration has not been clear on whether the baseline 10% tariffs imposed on most countries will stay in place. But in an appearance on Mornings with Maria, Bessent said the economy would be back to firing on all cylinders at a point in the not too distant future. He said there has been an overwhelming response by the countries who want to come and sit at the table rather than escalate. Bessent mentioned Japan, South Korea, and India. I will note that they are all around China. We have Vietnam coming today, he said.Even as the administration has tried to calm the world, new risks are forming. China imposed 84% tariffs on goods from the United States. Canada now has auto tariffs to match the 25% being charged by Washington. The EU approved new taxes on U.S. goods after the 25% steel and aluminum tariffs from Trump.Trump is already calling for more tariffs, looking at copper, lumber and computer chips. In a Tuesday night speech, he said taxes on imported drugs would happen soon. JOSH BOAK Boak covers the White House and economic policy for The Associated Press. He joined the AP in 2013. twitter mailto

President Donald Trump speaks at the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) dinner at the National Building Museum in Washington, Tuesday, April 8, 2025. (Pool via AP)2025-04-09T15:33:16Z Follow live updates on President Donald Trump and his administration McALLEN, Texas (AP) Federal judges in New York and Texas on Wednesday took legal action to block the government from moving five Venezuelans out of the country until they can fight the governments attempt to remove them under a rarely-invoked law that gives the president the power to imprison and deport noncitizens in times of war.The men were identified as belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang, a claim their lawyers dispute.Three men are being detained in a facility in Texas while two more are being held in an Orange County, New York, facility. One man in Texas is HIV positive and fears lacking access to medical care if deported.Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. signed a temporary restraining order in Texas while Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein said at a New York hearing that he planned to sign a temporary restraining order as well to block removals while the court challenges proceed. The actions came after civil liberties lawyers in Texas and New York sued in defense of the Venezuelans who are at risk of removal from the U.S. under a rarely-invoked law that gives the president the power to imprison and deport noncitizens in times of war. All five men were identified by the government as belonging to the Tren de Aragua gang.In Texas, the three plaintiffs were detained in a facility and face possible deportation, including a man who is HIV positive and fears lacking access to medical care if deported. The men were identified as gang members by physical attributes using the Alien Enemy Validation Guide, in which an ICE agent tallies points by relying on tattoos, hand gestures, symbols, logos, graffiti, and manner of dress, according to the ACLU. Experts who study the gang have told the ACLU the method is not reliable.The lawsuit sought class action status to affect others who are detained and face similar deportation. The ACLU had requested a temporary restraining order to keep their petitioners in the U.S. and for the judge to declare the 18-century Alien Enemies Act, which the Trump administration is invoking, unlawful. In New York, Hellerstein set a hearing for April 22 to decide whether a temporary restraining order he planned to sign Wednesday would be turned into a preliminary injunction. The case pertains to two Venezuelan men who also face deportation under the Alien Enemies Act. Civil liberties groups have sued the government on behalf of the two men, one 21 the other 32, who are being held by immigration authorities at a jail about 45 miles (72 kilometers) northwest of New York City.The Alien Enemies Act has only been used three times in the past, during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II, when it was used to justify the mass internment of people of Japanese heritage while the U.S. was at war with Japan.The United States is not at war with Venezuela, but President Donald Trumps administration has argued the U.S. is being invaded by members of the Tren de Aragua gang.U.S. immigration authorities already have deported more than 100 people and sent them to a notorious prison in El Salvador without letting them challenge their removals in court. On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to use the wartime law to deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members, but it also ruled the administration must give Venezuelans the chance to legally fight any deportation orders.The ruling did not address the constitutionality of the act. The ACLU is asking the judge in Texas to decide on whether it is lawful to use the Alien Enemies Act.The administration plans to expand its use for members of the Salvadoran gang MS-13, Todd Lyons, acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director, told reporters Tuesday during Border Security Expo, a trade show in Phoenix.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00912-8Scientists have fully sequenced the genomes of six living ape species, enabling long-awaited comparisons of hard-to-assemble genomic regions.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00965-9Finding an effective treatment for insomnia is one thing getting an insurance company to pay for it is another, says Rachel Nuwer.

President Donald Trump listens as Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a news conference in the East Room of the White House, Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)2025-04-09T21:07:48Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Israel would be the leader of a potential military strike against Iran if Tehran doesnt give up its nuclear weapons program.Trump made the comments ahead of this weekends scheduled talks involving U.S. and Iranian officials in the Middle East sultanate of Oman. Trump earlier this week said the talks would be direct while Iran has described the engagement as indirect talks with the U.S.If it requires military, were going to have military, Trump said. Israel will obviously be very much involved in that. Theyll be the leader of that. But nobody leads us, but we do what we want to do.The United States is increasingly concerned as Tehran is closer than ever to a workable weapon. But Trump said on Wednesday that he doesnt have a definitive timeline for the talks to come to a resolution. When you start talks, you know, if theyre going along well or not, Trump said. And I would say the conclusion would be what I think theyre not going along well. So thats just a feeling.The U.S. and other world powers in 2015 reached a long-term, comprehensive nuclear agreement that limited Tehrans enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions. But Trump unilaterally withdrew the U.S. from the nuclear agreement in 2018, calling it the worst deal ever. Iran and the U.S., under President Joe Biden, held indirect negotiations in Vienna in 2021 aimed at restoring the nuclear deal. But those talks, and others between Tehran and European nations, failed to reach any agreement. Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury Department earlier on Wednesday issued new sanctions targeting Irans nuclear program.Five entities and one person based in Iran are cited in the new sanctions for their support of Irans nuclear program. The designated groups include the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and subordinates Iran Centrifuge Technology Company, Thorium Power Company, Pars Reactors Construction and Development Company and Azarab Industries Co. I want Iran to be great, Trump said Wednesday. The only thing that they cant have is a nuclear weapon. They understand that.Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian again pledged Wednesday that his nation is not after a nuclear bomb and even dangled the prospect of direct American investment in the Islamic Republic if the countries can reach a deal.The comments by the reformist leader represent a departure from Irans stance after its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, in which Tehran sought to buy American airplanes but in effect barred U.S. companies from coming into the country.His excellency has no opposition to investment by American investors in Iran, Pezeshkian said in a speech in Tehran, referring to Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. American investors: Come and invest.___ AAMER MADHANI Madhani covers the White House for The Associated Press. He is based in Washington. twitter mailto

Keegan Bradley celebrates with sons Cooper, 4, and Logan, 7, left, on the seventh hole during the par-3 contest at the Masters golf tournament, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, in Augusta, Ga. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)2025-04-07T16:38:34Z AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) The Masters begins Thursday at Augusta National, where defending champion Scottie Scheffler will try to win his third green jacket, Rory McIlroy will try again to win his first and the biggest names in golf will come together amid the Georgia pines for the years first major championship.There are 95 players in the field, the largest in a decade, even without five-time champion Tiger Woods, who had surgery in March to repair a torn Achilles tendon. Last year, Woods set a record by making the cut for the 24th time in a row.There is still a schism in the game, and just 12 from the breakaway LIV Golf league will be teeing up among the pink dogwoods and blooming azaleas. That includes Jon Rahm, the winner two years ago, and U.S. Open champion Bryson Dechambeau.Here is a look at what you need to know leading up to the Masters. When is the Masters?The first round begins at about 7:25 a.m. EDT Thursday, when honorary starters Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player and Tom Watson tee off on Tea Olive, the first hole at Augusta National. Jock Hutchison and Fred McLeod were the first honorary starters in 1963, but it was not until Byron Nelson and Gene Sarazen took over in 1981 that it became a treasured tradition.Davis Riley and Patton Kizzire are the first competitors off at 7:40 a.m., followed by groups of three. After the second round, the top 50 players and ties make the cut for the weekend and are paired according to score for the final two rounds. How can I watch the Masters?The Masters stream on its website begins Thursday at 7:15 a.m. and runs throughout the day, and cameras highlight holes and featured groups. The first two rounds are broadcast on ESPN beginning at 3 p.m. Thursday and Friday. CBS takes over Saturday and Sunday with coverage on its Paramount+ platform at noon and on the network beginning at 2 p.m.What are the betting odds for the Masters?Scheffler, who has yet to win this season, is the 9-2 favorite, according to BetMGM Sportsbook. McIlory is second at 13-2 after his wins at Pebble Beach and The Players Championship. Collin Morikawa is 14-1 while Rahm and DeChambeau are 16-1. Who should I watch at the Masters?Scheffler, who along with his green jacket and Olympic gold medal won seven times on the PGA Tour last year, got a late start to this season after cutting himself on a wine glass in December. But the world No. 1 comes into the Masters with momentum after a final-round 63 left him one shot back of winner Min Woo Lee in his last start at the Houston Open.McIlroy has been playing some of the best golf of his career. His collapse in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst last year in a Sunday duel with DeChambeau seems to have made the 35-year-old from Northern Ireland an even bigger sentimental favorite.Xander Schauffele won two majors last year and is seeking his first green jacket, though he seems to be still rounding into form following a rib injury. Five-time major winner Brooks Koepka has twice finished second at Augusta National.When are the featured groups?Morikawa, Lee and Joaquin Niemann tee off at 9:47 a.m. Thursday, beginning a run of high-profile groups. Phil Mickelson, Jason Day and Keegan Bradley are next, followed by Scheffler, who is grouped with Justin Thomas and U.S. Amateur champ Jose Luis Ballester. Jordan Spieth, Tom Kim and Tyrrell Hatton go off at 10:26 a.m.In the afternoon, McIlroy is grouped with Ludvig Aberg and Akshay Bhatia and tees off at 1:12 p.m., just behind the group of Schauffele, Adam Scott and Viktor Hoveland. DeChambeau, Hideki Matsuyama and Shane Lowery are off at 1:23 p.m., followed by Rahm, Wyndham Clark and Tommy Fleetwood. What is the weather forecast?While most of Mondays practice round was washed out, Tuesday and Wednesday were warm and sunny. The forecast for Thursday is clear, but storms could arrive overnight and the rain could continue into the early part of Friday.What happened Wednesday at Augusta National?The focus shifted from practice rounds on the championship course to the par-3 layout on what may be the most picturesque part of the property. Nicolas Echavarria and J.J. Spaun finished atop the leaderboard at 5 under in the family friendly event, but they may come to regret it nobody has won the Par 3 Tournament and gone on to win the Masters in the same year. What happened last year at the Masters?Scheffler shot a 4-under 68 on Sunday, keeping preternatural poise while his closest competitors faltered around Amen Corner, and finished with a four-shot victory over Masters newcomer Aberg for his second green jacket in three years.Aberg was among four players who had a share of the lead on Sunday; he lost ground when his approach went into the pond left of the 11th hole and he made double bogey. Morikawa had two double bogeys to fall out of the hunt, tying for third with Tommy Fleetwood and Max Homa, whose own double bogey from the bushes at the par-3 12th ruined his chances.Woods closed with a 77 and finished at 16-over 304, the highest 72-hole score of his career.___AP golf: https://apnews.com/hub/golf DAVE SKRETTA Skretta is a Kansas City-based sports writer for The Associated Press. He covers the Royals, the Chiefs and college sports along with auto racing, the Olympics and other sports.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01049-4A screen of interactions between genes involved in the cells response to DNA damage has revealed several previously unreported synthetic lethalities, in which disrupting a pair of genes, but not either gene alone, causes cell death. The resulting map of genetic interactions could help to identify therapeutic targets for cancer.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08878-3A global map of human subcellular architecture yields protein complex structures, reveals protein functions, identifies assemblies with multiple localizations or cell-type specificity and decodes paediatric cancer genomes.

Raiden Hung of Jurassic Gymnastics from Boston, relaxes after competing on the uneven bars at the 2025 NAIGC national competition in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)2025-04-09T15:26:46Z PITTSBURGH (AP) Raiden Hung cant imagine a life without gymnastics. And to be honest, he doesnt want to.Theres always been something about the sport thats called to him. Something about flipping. Something about the discipline it requires. Something about the mixture of joy and calm he feels whenever he steps onto a mat.It keeps me sane, I guess, the 21-year-old student at Northeastern University in Boston said. Gymnastics is the love of my life basically. Raiden Hung of Jurassic Gymnastics from Boston, center left, celebrates with teammate Fay Malay after competing in the floor exercise at the 2025 NAIGC national competition in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Raiden Hung of Jurassic Gymnastics from Boston, center left, celebrates with teammate Fay Malay after competing in the floor exercise at the 2025 NAIGC national competition in Pittsburgh, Friday, April 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More The hours in the gym have long served as a constant for Hung. The one thing he can always depend on. The one place where he can truly feel like himself.Still, Hung feared he would be forced to give up gymnastics when he realized in his late teens that he was non-binary. He had identified as female most of his life and competed in womens events growing up. He says he now identifies as trans-masculine.Part of Hungs transition included beginning hormone replacement therapy, something he considered putting off over worries that it meant he would no longer be able to compete.It was sort of like, Do I have to make a choice? Hung said. And that would have probably been awful for my mental stability, like having to choose between the two. The National Association of Intercollegiate Gymnastics Clubs gave Hung safe harbor. The stated mission of the steadily growing organization that includes more than 2,500 athletes and 160 clubs across the country is to provide a place for college and adult gymnasts to continue competing while pushing the boundaries of the sport. That includes, but is hardly limited to, being as gender-inclusive as possible.During local NAIGC meets, for example, there are no gender categories. Athletes compete against every other athlete at their designated skill level, which can run from novice/developmental routines to ones that wouldnt look out of place at an NCAA Division I meet. Gymnasts can also hop on whatever apparatus they want. Women on parallel bars. Men on the balance beam. Just about anything goes. At its annual national meet, the NAIGC even offers the decathlon, which allows athletes of all gender identities to compete against each other across all 10 disciplines six in mens, four in womens of artistic gymnastics.(We want) people to be able to continue doing gymnastics into adulthood in a way that feels comfortable and safe and supportive for them, said Ilana Shushanky, NAIGCs director of operations.A challenging climateThe approach comes as transgender athletes find themselves the target of increasingly heated rhetoric. President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February that gave federal agencies wide latitude to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the Trump administrations view, which interprets sex as the gender someone was assigned at birth. A day later, the NCAA said it would limit competition in womens sports to athletes who were assigned female at birth.The message to the transgender community at large was clear: You do not belong here. Several trans and/or non-binary members of the NAIGC, which is independently run and volunteer-led and does not rely on federal money to operate, felt it. Calix Hill, a 26-year-old gymnast who identifies as trans-masculine, returned to the sport two years ago following a lengthy break, the fallout of what they described as an abusive environment in the gym where they trained as a child. Hill was going to law school in the South when they began transitioning and said it was not unusual for them to be met with homophobic slurs while walking across campus or being regularly misgendered or singled out by professors.Multiple trans or non-binary athletes who spoke to The Associated Press said they pondered quitting following last falls election, despondent over what at times feels like an increasingly hostile environment toward their community. None did. One viewed stepping away as ceding power over a part of who they are to someone else. Another pointed to the social aspect of gymnastics and how vital the feeling of acceptance in their home gym was to maintaining proper mental and emotional health. Part of my identity is as an athlete and to see myself as strong and able to do hard things, said Wes Weske, who is non-binary and previously competed in the decathlon before recently graduating from medical school. I think (gymnastics) really helped my self-image and was just an important part of understanding myself. A sense of normalcyThat sense of belonging was everywhere at the NAIGCs national competition in early April. For three days, more than 1,700 athletes, including a dozen who registered their gender as other, turned a convention center hall in downtown Pittsburgh into what could best be described as a celebration.Not just of gymnastics. But of diversity. And inclusion. There were no protests. No performative grandstanding. It all looked and felt and sounded like any other large-scale meet. Cheers from one corner following a stuck dismount. Roars from another corner encouraging a competitor to hop back up after a fall. It felt normal. Thats the NAIGCs point. Gymnastics is for everyone. For Hung and the 11 other competitors allowed to choose whether to compete in the mens or womens divisions, nationals provided the opportunity to salute the judges and stand alongside their teammates while being seen for who they really are. When Hung dismounted from his uneven bars routine, several members of Jurassic Gymnastics, the all-adult competitive team based in Boston that Hung joined, came over to offer a hug, pep talk or both.The group included Eric Petersen, a 49-year-old married father of two teenagers who competed on the mens team at the Air Force Academy 30 years ago. He now dabbles in womens artistic gymnastics alongside Hung at Jurassic, one of the largest adults-only gymnastics club in the country.Petersen has heard all the noise about transgender athletes. It does not jibe with the reality he experiences in the gym.Certain people want to convince people that this is a big issue and people are losing their (minds), he said. But its not like that. Other groups can be uptight about that if they want. But in this group, its about the love of the sport. If you love the sport, then do the sport and have fun, no matter who you are.Finding their wayTen Harder got into gymnastics after being inspired by watching Gabby Douglas win gold at the 2012 Olympics. They spent their childhood competing as a woman but became increasingly uncomfortable at meets as they grew older. Everyone is, like, fitting into the binary gender roles of being super feminine or being very masculine, said Harder, 22, now a Ph. D. student at Boston University who identifies as non-binary/trans masculine. Youre sort of, like, unsure of where your place is and how you can fit into it.Harder felt like they had to make their own path. So they did. They connected on TikTok with a non-binary gymnast from the Netherlands and started competing in a uniform that felt more natural, a practice leotard similar to a tank top and shorts. Over the last couple of years, they have run across other non-binary or queer athletes, easing their sense of loneliness.It doesnt have to just be me figuring this out on my own, they said. I can work together with all these other people and see how i can build my own space in this really feminine sport.While there are times Harder admits they still grapple with feeling self-conscious about their gender identity even around teammates who have become friends and allies, there is also something greater at play. I think its important to remember that trans athletes are just people, too, he said. We deserve to be in the sports that we love. And we deserve to get a chance to compete and do everything just as other people do.Harder, who began taking testosterone recently, competed in the mens-plus division of womens artistic gymnastics at nationals at their given level. It just felt right. Hung, by comparison, competed in the womens-plus division at his given level. Also, because it just felt right.One trans athlete told the AP they decided to enter the mens-plus division even though they have not started medically transitioning because they wanted to prove they could hold their own anyway.They did not win. It hardly mattered. For most NAIGC athletes, the results are almost beside the point.An evolving sportGymnastics is a difficult, thankless and often physically demanding pursuit. Its long been considered the domain of the very young, a niche sport whose popularity spikes every four years during the Olympics only to fade again into the background.That stereotype is changing on multiple levels. Simone Biles, then 27, became the oldest womens Olympic all-around champion in 72 years in Paris last summer. Interest in womens college gymnastics is soaring. And the number of adults in the sport is spiking. Community membership in the NAIGC, for example, has doubled since 2015. Many of those members are like Jennifer Castellano, a 30-something director of investment operations at a firm in Raleigh, North Carolina, who returned to the gym following a long layoff. The last few years have given her a deep appreciation for the community it builds. When Castellano sees a transgender athlete competing, what races through her mind is not anger, but awe.At no point am I ever like, Oh my gosh, like, hes taken testosterone, like thats not fair, because its incredible, said Castellano, who competes for Triumph Gymnastics in Cary, North Carolina. To go through that change and to be able to continue to feel at home and to feel welcomed is so important.Hung has finished ahead of cisgender women at local NAIGC meets since he began transitioning. Asked if hes ever received any pushback, he shakes his head and said, Its sort of like, were just doing gymnastics.As Fay Malay, a non-binary teammate of Hungs at Jurassic, put it, theres so much more to being a human than the bits and parts (we) got.That doesnt keep Hung from occasionally wondering if competing against cisgender women while taking testosterone gives him an edge. An admittedly anxious person, his mind keeps coming back to two immutable facts. Hes non-binary trans masculine, something he lives with 24 hours a day, seven days a week, not just the handful of hours a year hes competing. And hes a gymnast. Hung feels he should be allowed to love both and be allowed to be both. In what can feel like an increasingly fractured world, gymnastics gives him peace. Hes found a home at Jurassic and within the NAIGC, one that allows him the freedom to compete as he is, not how others want to define him. He hopes as do several other trans athletes who spoke to the AP for this story that the non-binary community within the NAIGC will one day be large enough to have a division of its own. Maybe down the road. Whether that happens or not, he knows he still has a place in gymnastics. And for now, thats enough. It feels like a sort of like, like a safe bubble or like whats stronger than a bubble? said Hung, who finished in the middle of the pack in his division. I dont know. But its like, it definitely feels like ... like a shield.___AP video journalist Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos contributed to this report.___AP Sports: https://apnews.com/hub/sports WILL GRAVES Graves is a national writer for The Associated Press, based in Pittsburgh. He covers the NFL, MLB, NHL, the Olympics and major college sports. twitter facebook mailto

This image provided by the Allen Institute on April 8, 2025, shows a digital representation of neurons in a section of a mouse's brain, part of a project to create the largest map to date of brain wiring and function, in Seattle, Wash. (Forrest Collman/Allen Institute via AP)2025-04-09T15:02:39Z WASHINGTON (AP) Thanks to a mouse watching clips from The Matrix, scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date a diagram of the wiring connecting 84,000 neurons as they fire off messages.Using a piece of that mouses brain about the size of a poppy seed, the researchers identified those neurons and traced how they communicated via branch-like fibers through a surprising 500 million junctions called synapses.The massive dataset, published Wednesday by the journal Nature, marks a step toward unraveling the mystery of how our brains work. The data, assembled in a 3D reconstruction colored to delineate different brain circuitry, is open to scientists worldwide for additional research and for the simply curious to take a peek.It definitely inspires a sense of awe, just like looking at pictures of the galaxies, said Forrest Collman of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, one of the projects leading researchers. You get a sense of how complicated you are. Were looking at one tiny part ... of a mouses brain and the beauty and complexity that you can see in these actual neurons and the hundreds of millions of connections between them. How we think, feel, see, talk and move are due to neurons, or nerve cells, in the brain how theyre activated and send messages to each other. Scientists have long known those signals move from one neuron along fibers called axons and dendrites, using synapses to jump to the next neuron. But theres less known about the networks of neurons that perform certain tasks and how disruptions of that wiring could play a role in Alzheimers, autism or other disorders. You can make a thousand hypotheses about how brain cells might do their job but you cant test those hypotheses unless you know perhaps the most fundamental thing how are those cells wired together, said Allen Institute scientist Clay Reid, who helped pioneer electron microscopy to study neural connections. With the new project, a global team of more than 150 researchers mapped neural connections that Collman compares to tangled pieces of spaghetti winding through part of the mouse brain responsible for vision. The first step: Show a mouse video snippets of sci-fi movies, sports, animation and nature.A team at Baylor College of Medicine did just that, using a mouse engineered with a gene that makes its neurons glow when theyre active. The researchers used a laser-powered microscope to record how individual cells in the animals visual cortex lit up as they processed the images flashing by.Next, scientists at the Allen Institute analyzed that small piece of brain tissue, using a special tool to shave it into more than 25,000 layers, each far thinner than a human hair. With electron microscopes, they took nearly 100 million high-resolution images of those sections, illuminating those spaghetti-like fibers and painstakingly reassembling the data in 3D.Finally, Princeton University scientists used artificial intelligence to trace all that wiring and paint each of the individual wires a different color so that we can identify them individually, Collman explained. They estimated that microscopic wiring, if laid out, would measure more than 3 miles (5 kilometers). Importantly, matching up all that anatomy with the activity in the mouses brain as it watched movies allowed researchers to trace how the circuitry worked.The Princeton researchers also created digital 3D copies of the data that other scientists can use in developing new studies.Could this kind of mapping help scientists eventually find treatments for brain diseases? The researchers call it a foundational step, like how the Human Genome Project that provided the first gene mapping eventually led to gene-based treatments. Mapping a full mouse brain is one next goal.The technologies developed by this project will give us our first chance to really identify some kind of abnormal pattern of connectivity that gives rise to a disorder, another of the projects leading researchers, Princeton neuroscientist and computer scientist Sebastian Seung, said in a statement. The work marks a major leap forwards and offers an invaluable community resource for future discoveries, wrote Harvard neuroscientists Mariela Petkova and Gregor Schuhknecht, who werent involved in the project.The huge and publicly shared data will help to unravel the complex neural networks underlying cognition and behavior, they added.The Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks, or MICrONS, consortium was funded by the National Institutes of Healths BRAIN Initiative and IARPA, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity.-The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08838-xA genomic barcoding scheme called two-layer DNA seqFISH+ enables the simultaneous mapping of more than 100,000 loci and has been used to identify cell-type-specific subnuclear compartments in the mouse brain.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08772-yA laser-plasma electron beam generated using active energy compression demonstrates reduction in energy spread and jitter by an order of magnitude to below the permille level, comparable with modern radio-frequency accelerators.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08876-5A study using time-resolved cryogenic electron microscopy reveals the swinging lever mechanism of myosin, providing information on the molecular basis behind the production of force and movement by myosin.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08824-3An integrated optical parametric amplifier with an ultra-wide bandwidth was implemented using geometrically optimized low-loss nonlinear rib silicon nitride waveguides including the demonstration of broadband all-optical wavelength conversion.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Department of Homeland Security chief of staff Miles Taylor, right, depart after the Republican Caucus luncheon, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, March 5, 2019. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)2025-04-09T23:07:48Z WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump intensified his efforts to punish his critics on Wednesday by signing a pair of memoranda directing the Justice Department to investigate two officials from his first administration and stripping them of any security clearances they may have.Trumps targeting of Miles Taylor, a former Department of Homeland Security official in Trumps first term, and Chris Krebs, a former top cybersecurity official, came as the president has sought to use the powers of the presidency to retaliate against his adversaries, including law firms.Trump also on Wednesday retaliated against another law firm, Susman Godfrey, as he seeks to punish firms that have links to prosecutors who have investigated him or employed attorneys he sees as opponents. Although Trump has ordered security clearances to be stripped from a number of his opponents, including former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, the presidents order Wednesday directing the Justice Department to broadly investigate the actions of Taylor and Krebs marks an escalation of Trumps campaign of retribution since he returned to power. Taylor, who left the Trump administration in 2019, was later revealed to be the author of an anonymous New York Times op-ed in 2018 that was sharply critical of Trump. The person writing the essay described themselves as part of a secret resistance to counter Trumps misguided impulses, and its publication touched off a leak investigation in Trumps first White House. Taylor later published a book under the pen name Anonymous and publicly revealed his identity days before the 2020 election. Trump said Wednesday that Taylor was like a traitor and that his writings about confidential meetings were like spying.I think hes guilty of treason, he said. Taylor responded by saying Trump had proved his point. Dissent isnt unlawful. It certainly isnt treasonous. America is headed down a dark path, he wrote on X.Trump named Krebs the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency but became angered with him after he declared the 2020 election that Trump lost to be secure and the ballot counts to be accurate. Krebs did not respond to a message seeking comment Wednesday.Trump has falsely claimed he was cheated out of reelection in 2020 by widespread fraud, despite a mountain of evidence to the contrary. Recounts, reviews and audits in the battleground states where he disputed his loss all affirmed Bidens victory. Judges, including some he appointed, rejected dozens of his legal challenges.Its bizarre to see a president investigate his own administration and his own appointee, said David Becker, a former Justice Department lawyer and coauthor of The Big Truth, a book about Trumps 2020 election lies. Becker noted that Krebs issued his reassurances about the security of the upcoming election for months during 2020 without pushback from the then-president, with Trump only souring on him after the votes were counted. The reason he can sit in the White House today and govern from that position is because our election system is secure and has accurately determined who has won the presidency, Becker said.Susman Godfrey, the firm Trump targeted in an order Wednesday, represented Dominion Voting Systems in a lawsuit that accused Fox News of falsely claiming that the voting company had rigged the 2020 presidential election. Fox News ultimately agreed to pay nearly $800 million to avert a trial.The order bars the firm from using government resources or buildings, according to White House staff secretary Will Scharf.Trump has issued a series of orders meant to punish firms, including by ordering the suspension of lawyers security clearances and revoking federal contracts. Hes succeeded in extracting concessions from some who have settled, but others have challenged the orders in court.___Associated Press writers Zeke Miller and Eric Tucker in Washington and Nicholas Riccardi in Denver contributed to this report. MICHELLE L. PRICE Price covers the White House. She previously covered the 2024 presidential campaign and politics, government and other news in New York, Nevada, Utah and Arizona. She is based in Washington. twitter mailto

A traders works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)2025-04-10T00:28:05Z TOKYO (AP) Japans benchmark Nikkei 225 shot up in early Thursday trading, as investors welcomed President Donald Trump s decision to back off on most of his tariffs. The Tokyo Stock Exchanges Nikkei 225 was trading at 34,052.58, up 7.4% within the first 15 minutes of trading.The surge echoes the jump overnight on Wall Street, which had one of its best days in history, with the S&P 500 surging 9.5%. But the rallies follow earlier losses in global markets when the tariffs were announced.On Wednesday U.S. stocks soared after Trump said he would back off on most of his tariffs temporarily. They had been sinking earlier in the day on worries that Trumps trade war could drag the global economy into a recession. But then came the posting on social media that investors worldwide had been waiting and wishing for.I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, Trump said, after recognizing the more than 75 countries that he said have been negotiating on trade and had not retaliated against his latest increases in tariffs. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent later told reporters that Trump was pausing his so-called reciprocal tariffs on most of the countrys biggest trading partners, but maintaining his 10% tariff on nearly all global imports. China was a huge exception, though, with Trump saying tariffs are going up to 125% against its products. That raises the possibility of more swings ahead that could stun financial markets. The trade war is not over, and an escalating battle between the worlds two largest economies can create plenty of damage. U.S. stocks are also still below where they were just a week ago, when Trump announced worldwide tariffs on what he called Liberation Day.But on Wednesday, at least, the focus on Wall Street was on the positive. The Dow Jones Industrial Average shot to a gain of 2,962 points, or 7.9%. The Nasdaq composite leaped 12.2%. The S&P 500 had its third-best day since 1940.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08852-zThe immune-checkpoint molecule TIM-3 regulates microglial homeostasis, and its microglial-specific deletion reduced cognitive impairment in a mouse model of Alzheimers disease.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08805-6The authors use Patch-seq and electron microscopy datasets to relate synaptic connectivity to the transcriptomic cell type of different types of inhibitory neuron.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08869-4Diagnostic reasoning using an optimized large language model with a dataset comprising real-world medical cases exhibited improved differential diagnostic performance as an assistive tool for clinicians over search engines and standard medical resources.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01076-1People from modern Pakistan imported their musical technology all the way to what is now Oman.

Nature, Published online: 10 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01080-5Neurons engineered to evade the immune system could work as cell-replacement therapy.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00910-wBoosting the recycling process known as autophagy impaired in the brain during prolonged stress has the potential to restore normal neuronal activity and treat depression.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00964-wA typical person spends more than 20 years in a state of dreamy semi-consciousness. But surprisingly little is known about why we need this down time.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00982-8A poor working relationship with a supervisor or manager can result in lost opportunities, creating an unexplained gap in an early-career researchers publication record.

President Donald Trump listens to Jeff Crowe speak during an event on energy production in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)2025-04-10T04:11:57Z WASHINGTON (AP) The stock market was soaring and the sun was shining when President Donald Trump stepped out of the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon. Less than two hours earlier, he had retreated from his plans to increase tariffs on many U.S. trading partners, and investors were rejoicing after bracing for a global economic meltdown. Youve got the markets seeing your brilliance, Sen. John Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, told the president. Trump agreed. Nobodys ever heard of it, he declared. It was a typical bit of hyperbole that, in this case, was true. Even by the standards of Trumps second term, the saga that had played out over the past week left the world struggling to catch its breath. The president, of his own doing, had single-handedly pushed the global economy to the brink of chaos with new tariffs. The stock market cratered, businesses tore up their plans and foreign leaders prepared for a future without the worlds richest nation at the center of international trade. And then Trump backed down. Seven days after announcing what would have amounted to Americas largest tax hike since World War II in an elaborate Rose Garden ceremony, he rolled back most of the tariffs in a surprise post on his social media website. I think the word would be flexible, he said later despite days of insisting that he wouldnt bend. You have to be flexible. Uncertainty lingers as trade talks continueIt was unclear what the president had accomplished, beyond the satisfaction of, in his words, having other countries kissing my ass to try to talk him out of the tariffs. No new trade deals have been reached, although administration officials said negotiations are underway.However, real damage has been done. The back-and-forth over tariffs shook confidence in U.S. leadership, exposed fractures within Trumps team and rattled companies that rely on global sources for products and international customers for sales. Americans who use the stock market to save for retirement and college suffered days of angst. The turmoil isnt over yet, either. Trumps 10% blanket tariffs initially imposed on Saturday are now applied to dozens of nations. He also jacked up tariffs to 125% on imports from China, leaving the world bracing for a showdown between the first and second largest economies. There are 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Americas largest trading partners, as well as 25% taxes on imported autos, steel and aluminum.Other tariffs including 24% on Japan, 25% on South Korea, 20% on the European Union are on hold for 90 days to allow for trade talks. This just accentuates the policy uncertainty and sense of unreliability Trump is creating, said William Reinsch, a former U.S. trade official now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. While Reinsch said its good news that Trump didnt move forward with some of his highest tariffs, how does anybody know that he wont change his mind on Friday or next week? Trump makes his announcement on Liberation DayU.S. flags were draped along the White House colonnade for a red-white-and-blue backdrop when Trump announced his tariffs on Wednesday, April 2. My fellow Americans, this is Liberation Day, he said. The president held up a poster listing the tariffs that he would slap on each country 32% for Thailand, 49% for Cambodia, 26% for India, and on and on. People around the world squinted to decipher the numbers that would reset critical economic relationships.Trump has been fixated on international trade for decades, long before entering politics. His central concern is trade deficits, meaning the U.S. imports more than it exports.But the focus puzzles mainstream economists, who dont view the situation with the same level of alarm. Its no surprise, they said, that a rich nation like the U.S. would buy more than it sells, and theyre generally skeptical that tariffs alone would eliminate trade deficits.However, Trump declared that it was a national emergency that would allow him to push tariffs without congressional approval. His tariffs were not based on the import taxes charged by other countries but by the size of each trade deficit, a calculation that instantly discredited the policy with many economists and investors. Also baffling were the tariffs placed on Heard and McDonald Islands, which are mainly populated by penguins. The day after the announcement, Trump jetted to Florida for the weekend.The markets are going to boom, the stock is going to boom, the country is going to boom, he promised while leaving the White House, the whirring rotors of Marine One sometimes overpowering his voice. And the rest of the world wants to see if there is any way they can make a deal.But the market was crashing, posting its biggest single-day loss since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic five years earlier. And it didnt get any better as Trump attended a Saudi-funded tournament at his Miami golf course and participated in a candle-lit dinner for an allied political organization. On the flight back to Washington on Sunday evening, Trump told reporters that he won a club championship. Its good to win, he said. You heard I won, right?But around the country and the world, the fallout was spreading. Fulcrum Coffee Roasters in Seattle braced for rising costs for beans from Southeast Asia and espresso machines from Italy. Stellantis, the automaker behind brands like Jeep and Ram, announced it would pause production at plants in Mexico and Canada, leading to temporary layoffs at other facilities in Indiana and Michigan, a reminder of how interconnected vehicle supply chains have become. The Dutch division of Tata Steel said it would cut 1,600 employees, about a fifth of its workforce. Ireland Prime Minister Michael Martin said there is no way to sugar coat the situation as business with the U.S. started tapering off. Sri Lanka worried that its economic recovery would be derailed as its clothing industry faced new tariffs from its most important export market.Trump faces growing pushback from his own partyThe markets were still in a panic on Monday when an unverified report circulated that the president was considering a 90-day pause on the tariffs. Stocks briefly soared before investors realized the information was wrong. Were not looking at that, Trump said as hopes for the rumored reprieve vanished.By Tuesday, with fears of a recession growing, Trumps closest advisers began publicly sparring with one another. Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who leads the administrations efforts to trim the size of government, openly questioned the wisdom of the tariffs, which would raise costs for his electric automaker Tesla. White House trade adviser Peter Navarro insisted that Musk doesnt understand the situation. Musk fired back that Navarro was truly a moron and dumber than a sack of bricks. Republican lawmakers returning to the Capitol for the workweek were peppered with questions about the tariffs and what they would do in response. Some began voicing support for legislation meant to rein in a presidents tariff powers, before the White House struck back forcefully with a veto threat.Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin was asked on Tuesday if he understood Trumps strategy, and responded by asking does anybody? Some of his states premier companies like Kohls expected higher costs, while its dairy farms expected to struggle to sell milk and cheese. Harley-Davidson was a target of planned reciprocal tariffs by the European Union.Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina was even more blunt that day during a hearing with Trumps top trade representative, Jamieson Greer. If the tariff plans dont work, he said, Im just trying to figure out whose throat I need to choke. His states farmers, who raise hogs and grow tobacco among other products, feared getting caught in the crossfire of a trade war, while local manufacturers and tech companies could face higher prices on what they export to foreign consumers.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a former hedge fund manager with intimate knowledge of the financial sector, held a round of meetings on Capitol Hill, including a lunch with Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana.Kennedy had grown concerned about the tariffs, and he said they talked very frankly. He was part of a group of senators who sat down for an interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday night in hopes of swaying Trumps mind through one of his favorite Fox News hosts. Trump had been brushing off concerns about the tariffs and the market collapse by saying sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.Kennedy wasnt convinced, even if he shared the presidents concerns about unfair trade practices. We dont know if the medicine will be worse than the disease, he said.Trump retreats, and aides call it part of the strategy all alongThe tariffs on allies like Japan, South Korea and the European Union took effect at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, and there were no signs that Trump would back down when the sun came up in Washington. BE COOL! Everything is going to work out well, he posted on Truth Social.Trump also wrote: THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! advice that turned out to be fortuitous. The president later said hed been talking with his aides that morning about pausing the tariffs, an announcement that would send the stock market soaring. Greer was back on Capitol Hill for another hearing when Trump made his announcement. Rep. Steven Horsford, a Nevada Democrat, asked if Trumps trade representative knew that the tariffs he had just spent at least two hours defending had been paused. I understand the decision was made a few minutes ago, Greer said.Horsford erupted, saying this is amateur hour, and it needs to stop.At the White House, press secretary Karoline Leavitt scolded reporters for not understanding the presidents plans.Many of you in the media clearly missed The Art of the Deal, she said, referencing Trumps book from 1987. You clearly failed to see what President Trump is doing here.But the administration sent mixed messages even as it rolled back the tariffs. Bessent said the decision had nothing to do with the markets. This was driven by the presidents strategy, he told reporters outside the West Wing. He and I had a long talk on Sunday, and this was his strategy all along.Trump later contradicted Bessent. I was watching the bond market, he said. That bond market is very tricky.Despite the retreat, Trump showed no signs of regret. He was seeing dollar signs as he chatted with championship race car drivers in the Oval Office.In a video posted by one of his aides, the president gestured to two corporate executives. He made $2.5 billion today, and he made $900 million, he said. Thats not bad.___Reporting was contributed by Scott Bauer in Madison, Wisconsin, Martha Bellisle in Seattle, Stephen Groves in Washington, Jamey Keaten in Geneva, Bharatha Mallawarachi in Sri Lanka, Brian Melley in London, Molly Quell in Amsterdam and Gary Robertson in Raleigh, North Carolina. CHRIS MEGERIAN Megerian covers the White House for The Associated Press. He previously wrote about the Russia investigation, climate change, law enforcement and politics in California and New Jersey. twitter mailto SEUNG MIN KIM Seung Min is a White House reporter. twitter mailto

Rescue workers stand next to a recovered body of a victim who died when the roof collapsed two nights prior at the Jet Set nightclub during a merengue concert, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Wednesday, April 9, 2025, (AP Photo/Ricardo Hernandez)2025-04-10T04:35:12Z SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) Rescue crews in the Dominican Republic on Thursday dug through the remains of a legendary nightclub whose roof collapsed earlier this week, killing at least 184 people, but hope of finding survivors was slim.Meanwhile, dozens of people in the capital of Santo Domingo still searched for their loved ones, growing frustrated upon getting no answers after visiting hospitals and the countrys forensic institute.Doctors warned that some of the two dozen patients who remained hospitalized were still not in the clear, especially the eight who were in critical condition.If the trauma is too great, theres not a lot of time left to save patients in that condition, said Health Minister Dr. Vctor Atallah.He and other doctors said that injuries include fractures in the skull, femur and pelvis caused by slabs of cement falling on those attending a merengue concert at the Jet Set nightclub in Santo Domingo, where more than 200 were injured. The government said Wednesday night that it was moving to a recovery phase focused on finding bodies, but Juan Manuel Mndez, director of the Center of Emergency Operations, said crews at the scene were still looking for victims and potential survivors although no one has been found alive since Tuesday afternoon. Were not going to abandon anyone. Our work will continue, he said.The legendary club was packed with musicians, professional athletes and government officials when dust began falling from the ceiling and into peoples drinks early Tuesday. Minutes later, the roof collapsed. Victims include merengue icon Rubby Prez, who had been singing to the crowd before the roof fell; former MLB players Octavio Dotel and Tony Enrique Blanco Cabrera; and Nelsy Cruz, the governor of the northwestern province of Montecristi whose brother is seven-time Major League Baseball All-Star Nelson Cruz. Also killed was a retired United Nations official; saxophonist Luis Sols, who was playing onstage when the roof fell; New York-based fashion designer Martn Polanco; the son and daughter-in-law of the minister of public works; the brother of the vice minister of the Ministry of Youth; and three employees of Grupo Popular, a financial services company, including the president of AFP Popular Bank and his wife.Randolfo Rijo Gmez, director of the countrys 911 system, said it received more than 100 calls, with several of those made by people buried under the rubble. He noted that police arrived at the scene in 90 seconds, followed minutes later by first response units. In less than half an hour, 25 soldiers, seven fire brigades and 77 ambulances were activated, he said.Crews used dogs and thermal cameras to search for victims, rescuing 145 survivors from the rubble, authorities said.It wasnt immediately clear what caused the roof to collapse, or when the Jet Set building was last inspected.The government said late Wednesday that once the recovery phase ends, it will launch a thorough investigation.The club issued a statement saying it was cooperating with authorities. A spokesperson for the family that owns the club told The Associated Press that she passed along questions about potential inspections.Meanwhile, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Public Works referred questions to the mayors office. A spokesperson for the mayors office did not respond to a request for comment.

Nature, Published online: 10 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01113-zData centres accounted for roughly 1.5% of global electricity consumption in 2024.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01052-9A body fossil of a thorny-headed worm (Acanthocephala) has been dated to the Jurassic period, about 165 million years ago. It has characteristics of both Acanthocephala and tiny animals called Rotifera, thus casting light on the origin of the acanthocephalans and bridging the evolutionary gap between jawed rotifers and parasitic, jawless acanthocephalans.

People watch a TV screen showing former South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung announces his presidential bid via a video message at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)2025-04-10T04:16:10Z SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung, widely seen as the frontrunner in a presidential by-election triggered by the removal of President Yoon Suk Yeol last week, officially announced a presidential bid on Thursday, vowing to heal a starkly divided nation through economic growth.Lee, who narrowly lost the 2022 election to Yoon, led the liberal Democratic Partys campaign to oust the former president over his December declaration of martial law.Lee recently stepped down as the partys chairman to focus on campaigning for the June 3 election. He is considered the clear frontrunner in partys primary. Kim Dong-yeon, the Democratic governor of Gyeonggi province and a longtime financial policymaker, also told reporters Wednesday that he intends to run for president.Yoons downfall has left the conservative People Power Party in disarray, with roughly 10 politicians expected to seek the nomination, reflecting a split between Yoon loyalists, who still control the partys leadership, and reformists calling for a fresh start. In a video message, Lee said that Yoons martial law saga exposed the countrys deep divisions and social conflicts, and argued that the root cause was a widening rich-poor gap. He promised aggressive government spending to jolt economic growth and ease income polarization. We have more than we did in the past, but wealth is too concentrated in certain areas, Lee said. With economic growth rates declining worldwide, it has become difficult to maintain and develop an economy solely on the strength of the private sector. However, with government-led talent development and extensive investments in technological research and development, we can revive the economy. Lee said it was crucial to maintain a robust alliance with the United States and to pursue three-way cooperation with Japan, but he stressed that South Koreas national interest should come first in every decision. Lee, who has served as a lawmaker, provincial governor and city mayor, is adored by supporters for his outspoken style and has long positioned himself as an anti-elitist. His critics view him as a populist who stokes division and demonizes conservative opponents while failing to offer realistic funding plans to achieve his ambitious goals.Kweon Seong-dong, floor leader of the People Power Party and a staunch Yoon loyalist, said that if Lee becomes president, he will ruthlessly wield the sword of dogmatism and retribution and further deepen the countrys divisions. Lee also has his own set of legal troubles, facing five different trials for corruption and other criminal charges.Earlier this month, the Constitutional Court upheld Yoons impeachment by the legislature and formally removed him from office over the martial law decree, triggering a presidential by-election within 60 days. The next president will serve a full 5-year term.Former PPP leader Han Dong-hoon, who heads the partys anti-Yoon faction, was expected to announce his presidential bid on Thursday. Among the conservatives presidential hopefuls, former Labor Minister Kim Moon Soo is considered to be the most pro-Yoon.Kim, Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo and senior PPP lawmaker Ahn Cheol-soo a former computer software entrepreneur and three-time presidential candidate have declared their intentions to run for president. Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon is expected to enter the race later. KIM TONG-HYUNG Kim has been covering the Koreas for the AP since 2014. He has published widely read stories on North Koreas nuclear ambitions, the dark side of South Koreas economic rise and international adoptions of Korean children. twitter mailto

Vietnamese flags fly on the Hien Luong Bridge, with a memorial in the distance, at the former border between North and South Vietnam, Quang Tri province, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/David Rising)2025-04-10T02:10:44Z HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam (AP) Hamburger Hill, Hue, the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh: Some remember the Vietnam War battles from the headlines of the 1960s and 1970s, others from movies and history books. And thousands of Americans and Vietnamese know them as the graveyards of loved ones who died fighting more than a half-century ago. Today the battlefields of Vietnam are sites of pilgrimage for veterans from both sides who fought there, and tourists wanting to see firsthand where the war was waged. The wreckage of an American tank on display at the Khe Sanh Combat Base in Vietnam, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/David Rising) The wreckage of an American tank on display at the Khe Sanh Combat Base in Vietnam, Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/David Rising) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Tourists visit Hoa Lo prison museum in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) Tourists visit Hoa Lo prison museum in Hanoi, Vietnam, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More It was a war zone when I was here before, reflected U.S. Army veteran Paul Hazelton as he walked with his wife through the grounds of the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, which was known as Saigon when he served there. Hazeltons tour just shy of his 80th birthday took him back for the first time to places he served as a young draftee, including Hue, the former Phu Bai Combat Base on the citys outskirts, and Da Nang, which was a major base for both American and South Vietnamese forces. Everywhere you went, you know, it was occupied territory with our military, now you just see the hustle and bustle and the industry, and its remarkable, he said. Im just glad that were now trading and friendly with Vietnam. And I think both sides are benefiting from it. The history and the museum recounting itVietnams war with the United States lasted for nearly 20 years from 1955 to 1975, with more than 58,000 Americans killed and many times that number of Vietnamese.For Vietnam, it started almost immediately after the nearly decadelong fight to expel the colonial French, who were supported by Washington, which culminated with the decisive defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. The end of French Indochina meant major changes in the region, including the partitioning of Vietnam into Communist North Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, and U.S.-aligned South Vietnam.This year marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon to North Vietnamese and Viet Cong guerrilla troops, and the 30th anniversary of the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Vietnam. A tourist walks through the Dien Bien Phu Military Cemetery in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam. (AP Photo/David Rising) A tourist walks through the Dien Bien Phu Military Cemetery in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam. (AP Photo/David Rising) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Tourism has rebounded rapidly since the COVID-19 pandemic and is now a critical driver of Vietnams growth, the fastest in the region, accounting for roughly one in nine jobs in the country. Vietnam had more than 17.5 million foreign visitors in 2024, close to the record 18 million set in 2019 before the pandemic. The War Remnants Museum attracts some 500,000 visitors a year, about two-thirds of whom are foreigners. Its exhibits focus on American war crimes and atrocities like the My Lai massacre and the devastating effects of Agent Orange, a defoliant widely used during the war. A tourist looks at a U.S Air Force fighter jet used during the Vietnam war on display at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) A tourist looks at a U.S Air Force fighter jet used during the Vietnam war on display at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More The U.S. was to open the first exhibit of its own at the museum this year, detailing Washingtons extensive efforts to remediate wartime damage, but it is indefinitely on hold after the Trump administration slashed foreign aid.Other wartime sites in Saigon, which was the capital of South Vietnam, include the South Vietnamese presidents Independence Palace where North Vietnamese tanks famously crashed through the gates as they took the city and the Rex Hotel where the U.S. held press briefings derisively dubbed the Five Oclock Follies for their paucity of credible information. Tourists pose for photos in front of Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) Tourists pose for photos in front of Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More On the northern outskirts of the city are the Cu Chi tunnels, an underground warren used by Viet Cong guerrillas to avoid detection from American planes and patrols, which attracts some 1.5 million people annually. Today visitors can climb and crawl through some of the narrow passages and take a turn at a firing range shooting targets with war-era weapons like the AK-47, M-16 and the M-60 machine gun known as the pig by American troops for its bulky size and high rate of fire.I can understand a bit better now how the war took place, how the Vietnamese people managed to fight and protect themselves, said Italian tourist Theo Buono after visiting the site while waiting for others in his tour group to finish at the firing range. A tourist moves in a narrow tunnel passage in the relic site of Cu Chi tunnels in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) A tourist moves in a narrow tunnel passage in the relic site of Cu Chi tunnels in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More A tourist shoots targets with a war-era weapon at a firing range near Cu Chi tunnels in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) A tourist shoots targets with a war-era weapon at a firing range near Cu Chi tunnels in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Former North Vietnamese Army artilleryman Luu Van Duc remembers the fighting firsthand, but his visit to the Cu Chi tunnels with a group of other veterans provided an opportunity to see how their allies with the Viet Cong lived and fought. Im so moved visiting the old battlefields it was my last dying wish to be able to relive those hard but glorious days together with my comrades, the 78-year-old said. Relics like this must be preserved so the next generations will know about their history, about the victories over much stronger enemies. Outside the cityThe former Demilitarized Zone where the country was split between North and South in Quang Tri province saw the heaviest fighting during the war, and drew more than 3 million visitors in 2024. On the north side of the DMZ, visitors can walk through the labyrinthine Vinh Moc tunnel complex, where civilians took shelter from bombs that the U.S. dropped in an effort to disrupt supplies to the North Vietnamese. The tunnels, along with a memorial and small museum at the border, can be reached on a day trip from Hue, which typically also includes a stop at the former Khe Sanh combat base, the site of a fierce battle in 1968 in which both sides claimed victory. An American transport aircraft stands at the edge of the runway at the Khe Sanh Combat Base in Vietnam. Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/David Rising) An American transport aircraft stands at the edge of the runway at the Khe Sanh Combat Base in Vietnam. Feb. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/David Rising) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Today, Khe Sanh boasts a small museum and some of the original fortifications, along with tanks, helicopters and other equipment left by U.S. forces after their withdrawal. Hue itself was the scene of a major battle during the Tet Offensive in 1968, one of the longest and most intense of the war. Today the citys ancient Citadel and Imperial City, a UNESCO site on the north bank of the Perfume River, still bears signs of the fierce fighting but has largely been rebuilt. West of Hue, a little off the beaten path near the border with Laos, is Hamburger Hill, the scene of a major battle in 1969. A gardener waters flowers outside the newly rebuilt Kien Trung Palace in the Imperial City within the Citadel of Hue, Vietnam. (AP Photo/David Rising) A gardener waters flowers outside the newly rebuilt Kien Trung Palace in the Imperial City within the Citadel of Hue, Vietnam. (AP Photo/David Rising) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More A tourist looks over old French fortifications in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam. (AP Photo/David Rising) A tourist looks over old French fortifications in Dien Bien Phu, Vietnam. (AP Photo/David Rising) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More About 500 kilometers (300 miles) to the southwest near the Cambodian border is the Ia Drang valley, where the first major engagement between American and North Vietnamese forces was fought in 1965. Fighting in North Vietnam was primarily an air war, and today the Hoa Lo Prison museum tells that story from the Vietnamese perspective. Tourists look at a mural at the Hoa Lo prison museum in Hanoi, Vietnam, March. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) Tourists look at a mural at the Hoa Lo prison museum in Hanoi, Vietnam, March. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More Sardonically dubbed the Hanoi Hilton by inmates, the former French prison in Hanoi was used to hold American prisoners of war, primarily pilots shot down during bombing raids. Its most famous resident was the late Sen. John McCain after he was shot down in 1967.It was kind of eerie but fascinating at the same time, said Olivia Wilson, a 28-year-old from New York, after a recent visit. Its an alternative perspective on the war.___Rising reported from Bangkok. DAVID RISING Rising covers regional Asia-Pacific stories for The Associated Press. He has worked around the world, including covering the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Ukraine, and was based for nearly 20 years in Berlin before moving to Bangkok. twitter mailto

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01065-4Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But scientists have only begun to unlock the secrets of this ancient arms race.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-01044-9The activity that consumes roughly one-third of our lives affects health in ways scientists are only beginning to fully understand.

2025-04-10T01:06:03Z LOS ANGELES (AP) Jillian Lauren, author and wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, was shot and injured by Los Angeles police and arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after pointing a gun at officers from her front yard, authorities said Wednesday. The 51-year-old Lauren, identified by police as Jillian Shriner and listed as Jillian Lauren Shriner in jail records, had injuries that were not life threatening after the shooting in the northeast Los Angeles neighborhood of Eagle Rock on Thursday, the LAPD said in a statement. Her representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment and there is no indication Scott Shriner was involved in the incident. Weezer is scheduled to play the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on Saturday. Police said they were assisting California Highway Patrol officers in their search for three suspects from a misdemeanor hit-and-run. Lauren was not among the suspects. But while pursuing one of them who had reportedly been running through a backyard, police came upon Lauren in the front yard of her neighboring residence, holding a handgun. They ordered her several times to drop the gun, but she refused, and pointed it at them, police allege. They did not say whether she fired the gun, but said she was hit by police gunfire and fled into her home, where they took her into custody then took her to a hospital. A 9-millimeter handgun was recovered from Shriners home, the police statement said. She was later booked and was being held on $1 million bail, LA County jail records showed. Lauren has not made a court appearance, and it was not immediately clear whether she has hired a lawyer. There were no immediate responses to an email to her manager and a message left on her author website. There was also no response to an email seeking comment from a representative for Weezer. Lauren is the author of two bestselling memoirs, 2010s Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and 2015s Everything You Ever Wanted. Weezer is a Los Angeles band beloved for their 1994 record unofficially known as the Blue Album, featuring songs including Say It Aint So and Buddy Holly. Shriner joined the band in the early 2000s. Lauren and Shriner married in 2005, and they have two children. One of the three hit-and-run suspects was found, cited by the CHP and released. ANDREW DALTON Dalton covers entertainment for The Associated Press, with an emphasis on crime, courts and obituaries. He has worked for the AP for 20 years and is based in Los Angeles. mailto

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41586-025-08817-2Explosive growth is attributed to the BCR::ABL1 gene 314years before diagnosis of chronic myeloid leukaemia, highlighting the oncogenic potency of gene fusion and the slow and sequential trajectories of most other cancers.

Nature, Published online: 09 April 2025; doi:10.1038/d41586-025-00906-6A non-contact wearable device measures the skins microclimate for continuous, real-time monitoring of wounds and wound healing.

Shoppers tour by a Starbuck cafe and a Lululemon store inside a shopping mall, in Beijing, Thursday, April 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)2025-04-10T05:41:43Z TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) China is reaching out to other nations as the U.S. layers on more tariffs, in what appears to be an attempt by Beijing to form a united front to compel Washington to retreat. Days into the effort, its meeting only partial success from countries unwilling to ally with the main target of President Donald Trumps trade war. Facing the cratering of global markets, Trump on Wednesday backed off his tariffs on most nations for 90 days, saying countries were lining up to negotiate more favorable conditions. New Volvo vehicles parked near containers as waiting for shipment at the Yangtze port, in Nanjing city in east Chinas Jiangsu province, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP) New Volvo vehicles parked near containers as waiting for shipment at the Yangtze port, in Nanjing city in east Chinas Jiangsu province, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (Chinatopix Via AP) Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit Read More China has refused to seek talks, saying the U.S. was insincere and that it will fight to the end in a tariff war, prompting Trump to further jack up the tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%. China has retaliated with tariffs on U.S. goods of 84%, which took effect Thursday. Trumps move was seemingly an attempt to narrow what had been an unprecedented trade war between the U.S. and most of the world to a showdown between the U.S. and China. China has thus far focused on Europe, with a phone call between Premier Li Qiang and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sending a positive message to the outside world. The two are each others largest trading partners. China is willing to work with the EU to jointly implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of China and the EU, strengthen communication and exchanges, and deepen China-EU trade, investment and industrial cooperation, the official Xinhua News Agency reported. That was followed by a video conference between Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao and EU Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security efovi on Tuesday to discuss the U.S. reciprocal tariffs. Wang said the tariffs seriously infringe upon the legitimate interests of all countries, seriously violate WTO rules, seriously damage the rules-based multilateral trading system, and seriously impact the stability of the global economic order, Xinhua said. It is a typical act of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying, Wang said quoted as saying. China is willing to resolve differences through consultation and negotiation, but if the U.S. insists on its own way, China will fight to the end, Wang said. Wang has also spoken with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, while Li, the premier, has met with business leaders. China has already made a full evaluation and is prepared to deal with all kinds of uncertainties, and will introduce incremental policies according to the needs of the situation, Xinhua quoted Li as saying. Not all countries are interested in linking up with China, especially those with a history of disputes with Beijing.We speak for ourselves, and Australias position is that free and fair trade is a good thing, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told reporters. We engage with all countries, but we stand up for Australias national interest and we stand on our own two feet.China imposed a series of official and unofficial trade barriers against Australia in 2020 after the then-government angered Beijing by calling for an independent inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic. India has also reportedly turned down a Chinese call for cooperation, and Russia, typically seen as Chinas closest geopolitical partner, has been left out of the Trump tariffs altogether. Yet, Southeast Asian nations such as Vietnam and Cambodia find themselves in a particular bind. They benefited when factories moved to their countries from China due to rising costs. They are being hit by punishing tariffs but have few buyers outside the U.S. and are already operating on razor-thin margins. Trump had previously denied contemplating a pause, but the drama over his tariffs will continue as the administration prepares to engage in country-by-country negotiations. Meanwhile, tariffs will be 10% for the countries where the larger ones were paused. RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

This image taken from video that European military officials say was filmed by a Ukrainian drone in the southern Ukrainian village of Piatykhatky on March 13, 2025, shows a soldier, left, identified as Russian, pointing his gun at a Ukrainian soldier who appears to be surrendering after emerging from the ruins of a house to join other Ukrainian prisoners on the ground. (Ukraine Military/European Defense Officials via AP)2025-04-10T06:03:40Z ROME (AP) The Ukrainian soldiers clambered from the ruined house at gunpoint one with arms raised in surrender to the Russian troops and lay face-down in the early spring grass.Two drones one Ukrainian and one Russian recorded the scene from high above the southern Ukrainian village of Piatykhatky. The Associated Press managed to get both videos. They offer very different versions of what happened next.The Ukrainian drone video, which AP obtained from European military officials, shows soldiers with Russian uniform markings raising their weapons and shooting each of the four Ukrainians in the back with such ferocity that one man was left without a head.Out of all the executions that weve seen since late 2023, its one of the clearest cases, said Rollo Collins of the Center for Information Resilience, a London group that specializes in visual investigations and reviewed the video at APs request. This is not a typical combat killing. This is an illegal action. The Russian drone video, which AP located on pro-Kremlin social media, cuts off abruptly with the men lying on the ground alive. As a result of the work done by our guys, the enemy decided not to be killed and came out with their hands up, wrote a Russian military blogger who posted the video. Two videos. Two stories. In one, the prisoners appear to live. In the other, they die. As evidence of potential war crimes continues to mount, many in Ukraine worry that the Trump administrations about-face on the war will make it more difficult to establish a firm historical narrative about what has happened since Russias 2022 invasion and whether those most responsible for atrocities will ever be held accountable.On March 13, the day European officials say the incident in Piatykhatky took place, U.S. representatives landed in Russia for ceasefire talks with President Vladimir Putin. President Donald Trump, who has signaled that a prospective deal could see Ukraine surrender some territory and echoed Moscows talking points, called for a quick peace deal. His administration has pulled back support for Ukraine, including war crimes investigations, and is rebuilding relations with Putin the very man many victims and prosecutors want to see in court.Whatever a peace agreement would be, Ukraine is not ready to forgive everything which happened in our territory, Yurii Bielousov, head of the war crimes department for Ukraines prosecutor general, told AP. In which form there will be accountability, that we dont know at the moment.Kremlin denies a policy of killing POWsThe killing of surrendering POWs in the Ukrainian video a crime under international law was not unique, according to Ukrainian prosecutors, international human rights officials and open-source analysts.At least 245 Ukrainian POWs have been killed by Russian forces since the full-scale invasion, according to Ukrainian prosecutors. They allege its part of a deliberate strategy encouraged by Russian officials.Its definitely part of the policy, which is fully supported by the top leaders of the Russian Federation, Bielousov told AP. This isnt the action of specific commanders. It is supported on the top level. Asked about Russias treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia treats surrendering Ukrainian troops in accordance with international law and does not encourage the killing of POWs. Have a news tip?Contact APs global investigative team at [emailprotected]. For secure and confidential communications, use the free Signal app +1 (202) 281-8604. This is not a policy of the Russian side, he told AP, and repeated Moscows claims that atrocities committed by its troops in the Ukrainian town of Bucha were faked.In the occupation of that town outside Kyiv early in the war, hundreds of Ukrainians were killed. Overwhelming evidence, including witness testimony, photos, CCTV videos, phone intercepts and corpses of civilians, substantiated those deaths. The battle for PiatykhatkyThe drone video in Piatykhatky was taken by Ukraines 128th Mountain Brigade, according to military officials with a European country that Ukrainian authorities shared the video with. The AP obtained it on condition of anonymity because the officials were not authorized to release it.Intense fighting has devastated this crossroads in the Zaporizhzhia region. Fresh scorch marks stain the grass and what houses remain are missing roofs and windows. The battle has been part of a scramble to seize territory ahead of peace talks, with Russia seeking a strategic foothold to force Ukraine to restructure its logistics lines, according to military analysts.Russian soldiers planted their flag amid the ruins of Piatykhatky last month, according to a drone video posted March 11 by pro-Kremlin bloggers.Two days later, the Russian and Ukrainian drones recorded the surrender of the four Ukrainian soldiers about 100 meters (yards) away.The Russian video shows an explosive drone flying in the window of the house where Ukrainians took cover, detonating with a flash. Both countries drones recorded one of the Ukrainians, arms raised and seemingly unarmed, leaving the shattered house. With a Russian soldier pointing his gun at him, the man plants himself spread-eagled next to his comrades on the ground.European military officials who analyzed the video said the Russians are identifiable by red or white markings on their uniforms.The Ukrainian video shows the Russians briefly searching their prisoners. Two more Russians arrive and consult with comrades. One pauses to use his radio. What happens next was cut from the Russian video. One Russian walks to the prisoners, raises his gun with one hand and starts firing. Another soldier shoots, too. While he reloads, a third Russian joins in, firing at least two shots at close range that take off the helmet and head of one man. Then the soldier whod been reloading finishes off the four Ukrainians, methodically shooting each, one by one.Neither video shows how the first Ukrainian soldier got out of the house.Ukraines 128th Mountain Brigade declined comment because the deaths are being investigated as a suspected war crime. Ukraines internal security agency confirmed to AP it has opened an investigation.Russian military bloggers who posted the edited video said it shows the work of an assault unit from Russias 247th Airborne Regiment.Russias Ministry of Defense did not respond to requests for comment on the incident.Analysts at the Center for Information Resilience confirmed the videos were recorded by different drones, as well the location and identifying marks of the soldiers.For us, this is very much a quite clinical, methodical process of execution, said Collins, the CIR analyst. It follows on from a very consistent sort of trend that weve seen since at least December 2023.A surge in killings of POWs Russia also claims to have documented systematic killings of Russian POWs by Ukrainian troops but didnt give overall numbers. In March, the Russian Foreign Ministry released testimony from Russian POWs exchanged by Ukraine who described beatings and torture in custody. Some reported a practice of finishing off wounded Russian fighters, as well as executing combatants who have laid down their arms.The Investigative Committee, Russias top state criminal investigation agency, said in December it had opened over 5,700 criminal cases into alleged Ukrainian crimes since the start of the conflict.The U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has documented 91 extrajudicial killings of Ukrainian POWs since August 2024. During the same period, it found a single case of Ukrainian soldiers killing a Russian POW.Bielousov, the Ukrainian war crimes prosecutor, said all such allegations against Ukrainian troops are being investigated.Danielle Bell, head of the U.N. Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, said the increase in POW killings by Russian forces hasnt happened in a vacuum. Russia enacted laws shielding soldiers from prosecution, she said, and officials have called for the killing or torture of Ukrainian POWs and endorsed reported extrajudicial killings. Multiple videos of POW killings have appeared online, some posted by Russian soldiers themselves, she noted, suggesting an environment of broad impunity.Calls on social media by public officials, amnesty laws, dehumanizing language within the context of impunity for these acts its contributing to an environment that allows such acts or these crimes to take place, she said.Tracking war crimesExtrajudicial killings are among over 157,000 potential war crimes Ukrainian prosecutors are investigating. Ukraine has relied on international support to help process that flood of information and structure complex cases for both international and domestic courts.That work is suffering since the Trump administrations cuts to foreign aid.Among those hit was the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, which lost $5 million from cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development. It had been using the money to collect evidence of offenses ranging from property damage to sexual assaults. The nongovernmental organization has cut staff, reduced operations and moved out of its Kyiv offices, executive director Oleksandr Pavlichenko told AP.U.S. funding to groups investigating atrocities in Cambodia and Syria helped build war crimes cases years later. It took over two decades to bring top leaders of the Khmer Rouge before a U.N.-backed court on war crimes charges stemming from their brutal rule in the 1970s that led to 1.7 million deaths. Prosecutors relied on archives of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, established with U.S. government funding.If not for that center, there would have been no Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Period, said Christopher Kip Hale, a criminal law expert who worked at the tribunal and has worked in Ukraine.To have durable peace, we have to have accountability. We have to invest now, he said. Without it, we see that ceasefires and armistices are just waiting periods for the next conflict to start.___Leicester reported from Paris and Dupuy reported from New York. Volodymyr Yurchuk in Kyiv, Ukraine; Molly Quell in The Hague, Netherlands; Yuras Karmanau in Tallinn, Estonia; and Emma Burrows in London contributed. ERIKA KINETZ Kinetz is a global investigative journalist for The Associated Press, based in Rome. She has won awards for her work in Ukraine, China, India, Myamnar and Cambodia. mailto BEATRICE DUPUY Dupuy is a newsgathering producer based in New York for The Associated Press. She specializes in breaking news reporting and verifying video. twitter mailto